Shirley Hazzard

Writers on Writers

Michelle de Kretser

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Black Inc
01 October 2019

Memoirs; Literature, Poetry & Criticism

A passionate, illuminating tribute to one of Australia's greatest writers, by Miles Franklin-winning author Michelle de Kretser.

'Hazzard was the first Australian writer I read who looked outwards, away from Australia. Her work spoke of places from which I had come and places to which I longed to go ... It was reading as an affair of revelations and gifts. It fell like rain, greening my vision of Australian literature as a stony country where I would never feel at home.'

In this powerful and exhilarating essay on Shirley Hazzard, Michelle de Kretser offers a masterclass in engaging with a writer's work. She illuminates the precision of Hazzard's electrifying prose, and celebrates the intelligence, wit and fierce humanity of her fiction.

By: Michelle de Kretser
Imprint: Black Inc
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 188mm, Width: 120mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 216g
ISBN: 9781760640194
ISBN 10: 1760640190
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 01 October 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Michelle de Kretser is the award-winning author of several novels, including The Rose Grower, The Hamilton Case and The Lost Dog. She has twice won the Miles Franklin Award - in 2013 for Questions of Travel and in 2018 for The Life to Come.