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The Bay of Noon: A Novel

The Bay of Noon: A Novel

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent writing, deeply known characters
Review: I checked this book out of the library simply because Hazzard won the 2003 National Book Award for The Great Fire which I have not read. This is a tightly written short novel with excellent characterization and a complex, slowly evolving plot. The setting, Naples, Italy, in about 1952, is different and mysterious to me. The story said a lot about human nature and the peculiar ways that love and friendship evolve. I recommend it highly.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A slice of Perfection
Review: This is a subtle whisper of a book. It is about the eddies and torrents of personal relationships that flow beneath the unreadable surfaces of many people. The Bay of Noon is beautifully observed, wry and sad in equal parts. Set in Naples during the 1960s, it spans love, loss and betrayal but never, ever falls into melodrama. Shirley Hazzard is the most subtle of novelists and I passionately love this slender novel.


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