The Bay Of Noon
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight.
A luminous work of literary fiction, The Bay of Noon chronicles the story of Jenny, a young Englishwoman who arrives in Naples in the early 1960s and finds herself drawn into an intimate circle of expatriates, including a captivating Italian novelist and a charismatic Scottish filmmaker. Shirley Hazzard renders postwar Naples with extraordinary sensory precision, presenting the city itself as a living force that reshapes its inhabitants' desires, loyalties, and sense of self. The novel unfolds with a quiet, elegiac intensity, as Jenny reflects from a distance of years on a season of emotional awakening and the complex bonds of friendship and longing that defined it. Hazzard's prose is celebrated for its exquisite restraint and poetic clarity, illustrating how much can be communicated through what remains unspoken between people. The Bay of Noon stands as a masterwork of mid-twentieth-century fiction, earning its place alongside the finest novels of place, memory, and the transformative power of human connection.
Author: Shirley Hazzard
Format: Hardback
Published: 1970, Macmillan
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight.
A luminous work of literary fiction, The Bay of Noon chronicles the story of Jenny, a young Englishwoman who arrives in Naples in the early 1960s and finds herself drawn into an intimate circle of expatriates, including a captivating Italian novelist and a charismatic Scottish filmmaker. Shirley Hazzard renders postwar Naples with extraordinary sensory precision, presenting the city itself as a living force that reshapes its inhabitants' desires, loyalties, and sense of self. The novel unfolds with a quiet, elegiac intensity, as Jenny reflects from a distance of years on a season of emotional awakening and the complex bonds of friendship and longing that defined it. Hazzard's prose is celebrated for its exquisite restraint and poetic clarity, illustrating how much can be communicated through what remains unspoken between people. The Bay of Noon stands as a masterwork of mid-twentieth-century fiction, earning its place alongside the finest novels of place, memory, and the transformative power of human connection.