The Evening Of The Holiday
Publishing Details
The Evening Of The Holiday
By (Author) Shirley Hazzard
Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Press Ltd
17th November 2006
7th September 2006
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.914
Physical Properties
160
Width 126mm, Height 196mm, Spine 14mm
131g
Description
Passionate undercurrents sweep in and out of this eloquent novel about a love affair in the summer countryside in Italy and its inevitable end. It takes place in a setting of pastoral beauty during a time of celebration -- a festival.
Sophie, half English, half Italian, meets Tancredi, an Italian who is separated from his wife and family. In telling the story of their love affair, author Shirley Hazzard punctures the placid surface of polite Italian society to reveal the intense yearnings and surprising responses in sophisticated people caught up in emotions they do not always understand.Reviews
'Charged with great power ... The impact on the reader is extraordinarily intense' New York Times Book Review 'Short, elegant, and very good ... A beautifully precise, ironic, and yet evocative style' New York Review of Books
Author Bio
Shirley Hazzard is author of the awardwinning novel The Great Fire (Virago 2004). Her other novels include Greene on Capri, a memoir of Graham Greene, and five works of fiction, including The Transit of Venus, winner of the 1981 National Book Critics' Award.
