Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would span four decades. They exchanged letters, cards and telegrams, and made occasional phone calls between Harrower's home in Sydney and Hazzard's apartments in New York, Naples and Capri. The two women wrote to each other of their daily lives, of impediments to writing, their reading, politics and world affairs, and in Hazzard's case, her travels. And they wrote about Hazzard's mother, for whose care Harrower took increasing - and increasingly reluctant - responsibility from the early 1970s (precisely the period when she herself virtually stopped writing).
Edited by Brigitta Olubas, Hazzard's official biographer, and Susan Wyndham, who interviewed both Hazzard and Harrower, this is an extraordinary account of two literary luminaries, their complex relationship and their times.
'Hazzard and Harrower is a book to keep close and return to often.' Michelle de Kretser
'Vital, compelling, terrifying, revelatory and a literary pleasure in its own right.' Anna Funder
'Beautiful, wise and unflinching. Will we ever have a chance like this again to eavesdrop on two great writers as they talk books, people and the world for forty years?' David Marr
'An engrossing portrayal of forty years of complicated friendship between two writers, only one of whom has the steel or is it the ruthlessness? to put her art before everything else.' Charlotte Wood
'I read these letters with mounting excitement. There is a righteous delight in seeing female talent reclaimed: two great Australian writers finally treated with the care and rigour they deserve.' Diana Reid
'This volume of letters copious, lively and affectionate is the latest work in the devoted re-presentation of both women.' Gail Jones,Sydney Morning Herald/The Age
'Letter writing is almost a lost art, but this collection of letters exchanged for 40 years between two of Australia's most erudite authors shows what an important part of social history it is.' Jennifer Somerville,GoodReading
'This collection...is sure to delight the uninformed and entertain existing fans of Hazzard's and Harrower's work.' Vanessa Francesca, Meanjin
Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began a correspondence that would span four decades. They exchanged letters, cards and telegrams, and made occasional phone calls between Harrower's home in Sydney and Hazzard's apartments in New York, Naples and Capri. The two women wrote to each other of their daily lives, of impediments to writing, their reading, politics and world affairs, and in Hazzard's case, her travels. And they wrote about Hazzard's mother, for whose care Harrower took increasing - and increasingly reluctant - responsibility from the early 1970s (precisely the period when she herself virtually stopped writing).
Edited by Brigitta Olubas, Hazzard's official biographer, and Susan Wyndham, who interviewed both Hazzard and Harrower, this is an extraordinary account of two literary luminaries, their complex relationship and their times.
'Hazzard and Harrower is a book to keep close and return to often.' Michelle de Kretser
'Vital, compelling, terrifying, revelatory and a literary pleasure in its own right.' Anna Funder
'Beautiful, wise and unflinching. Will we ever have a chance like this again to eavesdrop on two great writers as they talk books, people and the world for forty years?' David Marr
'An engrossing portrayal of forty years of complicated friendship between two writers, only one of whom has the steel or is it the ruthlessness? to put her art before everything else.' Charlotte Wood
'I read these letters with mounting excitement. There is a righteous delight in seeing female talent reclaimed: two great Australian writers finally treated with the care and rigour they deserve.' Diana Reid
'This volume of letters copious, lively and affectionate is the latest work in the devoted re-presentation of both women.' Gail Jones,Sydney Morning Herald/The Age
'Letter writing is almost a lost art, but this collection of letters exchanged for 40 years between two of Australia's most erudite authors shows what an important part of social history it is.' Jennifer Somerville,GoodReading
'This collection...is sure to delight the uninformed and entertain existing fans of Hazzard's and Harrower's work.' Vanessa Francesca, Meanjin
Set mainly in the rural, HARROWINGS connects with Black intellectual and art history in relation to agriculture. The poems include pulses of memoir from the poet's childhood growing up on a farm, as...
A passionate, illuminating tribute to one of Australia's greatest writers, by Miles Franklin-winning author Michelle de Kretser.'Hazzard was the first Australian writer I read who looked outwards,...
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