The Bay Of Noon
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: N/A (paperback). Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Intact. No stickers or labels visible.
Set against the sun-drenched backdrop of Naples, Italy, The Bay of Noon is a luminous work of literary fiction that chronicles the life of Jenny, a young English woman who arrives in the city in the early 1960s working for NATO. She soon forms a profound and life-altering friendship with Gioconda, a vivacious Italian writer, and becomes entangled in a web of love, longing, and memory that reshapes her understanding of herself and the world. Hazzard writes with exquisite precision and lyrical intensity, capturing the sensuous beauty of Naples and the bittersweet nature of human connection with masterful clarity. Narrated in retrospect, the novel presents a meditation on lost time and the indelible impressions left by fleeting relationships. A quiet, elegant masterpiece, it stands as a testament to Hazzard's extraordinary gift for rendering inner emotional landscapes with breathtaking economy and grace.
Author: Shirley Hazzard
Format: Paperback
Published: 1982, Penguin
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: N/A (paperback). Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Intact. No stickers or labels visible.
Set against the sun-drenched backdrop of Naples, Italy, The Bay of Noon is a luminous work of literary fiction that chronicles the life of Jenny, a young English woman who arrives in the city in the early 1960s working for NATO. She soon forms a profound and life-altering friendship with Gioconda, a vivacious Italian writer, and becomes entangled in a web of love, longing, and memory that reshapes her understanding of herself and the world. Hazzard writes with exquisite precision and lyrical intensity, capturing the sensuous beauty of Naples and the bittersweet nature of human connection with masterful clarity. Narrated in retrospect, the novel presents a meditation on lost time and the indelible impressions left by fleeting relationships. A quiet, elegant masterpiece, it stands as a testament to Hazzard's extraordinary gift for rendering inner emotional landscapes with breathtaking economy and grace.