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Book Description
More than twenty years after the classic The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard returns to fiction with a novel that in the words of Ann Patchett "is brilliant and dazzling..."
The Great Fire is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate aftermath of the great conflagrationContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard 314pp, Virago, £15.99 Aldred Leith is the son of a novelist whose well-established literary reputation is matched only by the wintry chill in his heart. But father and son share one secret, one love, which by the end ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback 320 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 1844080579
- ISBN-13: 9781844080571
- Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
- Pub date: May 06, 2004
- Dimensions: 1226 mm x 774 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover and Audio CD
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9781844080571 | Paperback | $13.10 | $9.65 | The Book Depository |
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The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard Virago £15.99, pp314 It seems perverse for a novel to have as few flaws as Shirley Hazzard's The Great Fire. Surely an outright masterpiece is only a few waves of the magic wand away - the wand in this case being an ... (read full critics)