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The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The ...Show synopsisThe Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the center of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in Occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself. In the looming shadow of world enmities resumed, and of Asia's coming centrality in world affairs, a man and a woman seek to recover self- reliance, balance, and tenderness, struggling to reclaim their humanity.Hide synopsis
Description:G in G jacket. Ex-library copy with normal library stamps and...G in G jacket. Ex-library copy with normal library stamps and stickers; Tapes play well.
Description:Very Good. 1402581122 1402581122 From The New Yorker Hazzard is...Very Good. 1402581122 1402581122 From The New Yorker Hazzard is nothing if not discriminating. Hierarchies of feeling, perception, and taste abound in her writing, and this novel--her first in more than twenty years--takes on the very notion of what it means to be civilized. The fire of the title refers primarily to the atomic bombing of Japan, but also to the possibility of transcendent passion in its aftermath. In 1947, a thirty-two-year-old English war hero visiting Hiroshima during the occupation finds himself billeted in a compound overseen by a boorish Australian brigadier and his scheming wife. He is immediately enchanted, however, by the couple's children--a brilliant, sickly young man and his adoring sister--who prove to be prisoners in a different sort of conflict. In the ensuing love story, Hazzard's moral refinement occasionally veers toward preciosity, but such lapses are counterbalanced by her bracing conviction that we either build or destroy the world we want to live in with our every word and gesture. Copyright?
Description:Very Good. Ex-Rental. Very Good condition. Audio Cassette. Case...Very Good. Ex-Rental. Very Good condition. Audio Cassette. Case Acceptable. Unabridged edition. Original artwork may contain stickers or shelfware. Quality guaranteed!
Description:Good. 1402581122 Library Edition. Possible library labels on...Good. 1402581122 Library Edition. Possible library labels on cover and discs. Packed in sturdy binder for repeated use. Fast Shipping!
Description:Good. 1402581122 Library Edition. Possible library labels on...Good. 1402581122 Library Edition. Possible library labels on cover and discs. Packaged in sturdy binder for repeated use. Fast Shipping!
Description:Good. 10 AUDIO CDs published by RECORDED BOOKS in the clamshell...Good. 10 AUDIO CDs published by RECORDED BOOKS in the clamshell case withdrawn from the library collection. Some library marking and sticker to the box. The AUDIO CDs are in individual slots, protected and clear sounding. Enjoy this UNABRIDGED AUDIO CD performance!
The sweep of the story is breathtaking, a wonderful overview of the Second World War Asian theatre. The main character, a man, was unconvincing, however. He seemed to live for love, not competition with other men, as most men I know do. His career choices and frustrations were never touched on. ...
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