The Evening Of The Holiday, 9781844082179
Paperback
Italian summer, forbidden love, and simmering secrets ignite.

The Evening Of The Holiday

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  • Paperback

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    16 November 2006

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Summary

An Italian Summer: Love’s Ephemeral Dance

Passionate undercurrents sweep through this eloquent novel about a love affair in the Italian countryside and its inevitable end. The story unfolds in a setting of pastoral beauty during a time of celebration – a festival.

Sophie, half English, half Italian, meets Tancredi, an Italian separated from his wife and family. In telling the story of their love affair, author Shirley Hazzard punctures the placid surface of polite Italian so…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781844082179
ISBN-10:1844082172
Author:Shirley Hazzard
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Virago Press Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:16 November 2006
Weight:131g
Dimensions:196mm x 126mm x 14mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘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

About The Author

Shirley Hazzard

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.

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