Shirley Hazzard Is Ignoring Us; And Thank God For That; The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard

The Stranger | December 24, 2003| | Copyright

WHEN SHIRLEY HAZZARD won the National Book Award last month for The Great Fire, she confessed, in her acceptance speech, a near-total ignorance of contemporary culture. This was hardly a surprise to anyone who's read The Great Fire: The book shows no imprint whatsoever of the last 50 years of the world's existence. She could have announced that she had in fact written the book in 1949 and left it untouched in a drawer for a half century, and no one would have batted an eye. But I would have been sad to hear it. Part of what gives The Great Fire its great intensity is the idea of this aged ...

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