Softcover. Macmillan and Co Ltd. London. 1970.
Green paper stock covers. Creasing to the spine. Bump to the rear back right corner. Binding is solid. Pages are clean. In Near Fine condition. Appears unread.
Shirley buy Hazzard (30 January 1931 – 12 December 2016) was an Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Hazzard's 1970 novel The Bay of Noon was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010; her 2003 novel The Great Fire won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction, the Miles Franklin Award and the William Dean Howells Medal. Hazzard also wrote nonfiction, including two books based on her experiences working at the United Nations Secretariat.
A young Englishwoman, Jenny, is working in Naples some years after World War II. Alone in the ruined city, she follows up a letter of introduction from an acquaintance, through which she meets Gioconda, a beautiful and gifted writer, and her lover Gianni, a noted Roman film director. Meanwhile at work she meets Justin, a Scotsman whose inscrutability Jenny finds mysteriously attractive. As Jenny becomes increasingly drawn into the lives of the three, she discovers that the past is not easily forgotten.
Product code: The Bay of Noon. Shirley Hazzard. buy Macmillan. 1970. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Rare.