The Evening of the Holiday
A Novel
ISBN10: 0312423268
ISBN13: 9780312423261
Trade Paperback
144 Pages
$20.00
CA$21.99
Passionate undercurrents sweep in and out of this eloquent novel about a love affair in the Italian countryside and its inevitable conclusion. The story takes place in a setting of pastoral beauty during a time of celebration—a summer festival.
Sophie, half English, half Italian, meets Tancredi, an Italian who is separated from his wife and family. In telling the story of their love affair, author Shirley Hazzard punctures the placid surface of polite Italian society to reveal the intense yearnings and surprising responses of sophisticated people caught up in emotions they do not always understand.
Reviews
Praise for The Evening of the Holiday
"A near perfect novel . . . A small masterpiece."—Time
"Charged with great power . . . The impact on the reader is extraordinary intense."—The New York Times Book Review
"Short, elegant, and very good . . . [Written with] a beautifully precise, ironic, and yet evocative style."—The New York Review of Books
"An authentic work of art . . . A cause for delight and gratitude . . . Beautiful, absorbing, satisfying."—Chicago Tribune