Description: The "fascinating and irresistible"--("The New York Times") portrait of a great but difficult man and a legendary island. In "Greene on Capri", Hazzard uses her intimacy with Graham Greene as a prism through which to illuminate his character, work and talk.
Brief description:
Shirley Hazzard (1931-2016) was born in Australia, and in early years traveled the world with her parents due to their diplomatic postings. At sixteen, living in Hong Kong, she was engaged by British Intelligence, where, in 1947-48, she was involved in monitoring the civil war in China. Thereafter, she lived in New Zealand and in Europe; in the United States, where she worked for the United Nations Secretariat in New York; and in Italy. In 1963, she married the writer Francis Steegmuller, who died in 1994.
Ms. Hazzard's novels are The Evening of the Holiday (1966), The Bay of Noon (1970), The Transit of Venus (1981) and The Great Fire (2003). She is also the author of two collections of short fiction, Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories (1963) and People in Glass Houses (1967). Her nonfiction works include Defeat of an Ideal (1973), Countenance of Truth (1990), and the memoir Greene on Capri (2000). She lived in New York, with sojourns in Italy.Review Quotes:
"A model not merely of memoir but of the writer's craft." --Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
"The 'fascinating and irresistible' portrait of a great but difficult man and a legary island." --The New York Times