Shirley Hazzard Summary

Shirley Hazzard's fiction is known and admired for its complexly bourgeois pleasures and interests, its internal personal and symbolic dynamics and complexities. However, also important to Hazzard are... Read more

Critical Essay by Brigid Brophy The 10 substantial stories in Cliffs of Fall are almost without imagery and description, their vehicle being dialogue and simple reportage of gesture. The characters a... Read more

Critical Essay by Laurie Stone Marjorie Morningstar is about a curious and good-looking woman whose destiny is entirely wrapped up in the men she chooses. First she picks a flashily sexy but soft-at-... Read more

Critical Essay by Gail Godwin This engrossing, masterly novel ["The Transit of Venus"] is shaped with an admirable blend of substance and economy. It combines the satisfaction of a fami... Read more

Critical Essay by Don M. Wolfe The ten stories collected [in Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories] reveal a many-faceted if unextended talent concentrated mainly on the portrayal of woman acutely vulnera... Read more

Critical Essay by Laurence Lafore Shirley Hazzard's writing is like some electronic mechanism, enormously intricate in design and function, charged with great power, but so refined by skill th... Read more

Critical Essay by Robie Macauley "The Bay of Noon" is one of those rare novels that tries to address itself to the reader's intelligence rather than his nightmares. Its assumptio... Read more

Critical Essay by R. G. Geering Shirley Hazzard is … stylish but she … writes with restraint, preferring understatement and implication to explanation and assertion. The controlled sens... Read more