Shirley Hazzard takes her time between novels. At 72, she had only written six and had taken two decades to complete the follow-up to her acclaimed and bestselling The Transit of Venus. She counts on a legion of patient fans -- as well as a meticulous way with language. Plus, she s funny. Hazzard's fiction has always been marked by such precise lyricism and emotional microscopy that it's been easy to overlook her gifts for aphorism and laugh-out-loud skewering, The Atlantic Monthly noted in 2003.

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Collected Stories
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Greene on Capri: A Memoir
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The Bay of Noon
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Countenance of Truth: The United Nations and the Waldheim Case
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Best for Winter: A Selection from Twenty-Five Years of Winter's Tales
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Expatriates of No Country: The Letters of Shirley Hazzard and Donald Keene
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Defeat of an ideal: A study of the self-destruction of the United Nations
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