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Collected Stories by Shirley Hazzard
4.0

I might have just found a new favourite author. (Well, I have many, but who's counting.)

Hazzard is funny in a non obvious way; the stories in "People in Glass Houses", which probably reflect her own experience at the UN, are humorous with a touch of kafkaesque absurdity. But she also manages to capture domestic conflicts in a very particular way—her characters in "Cliffs of Fall" are incredibly believable; they're mature, intellectual, they quote poetry and know about art and mythology, they're flawed and sometimes misogynistic, they have affairs or live in solitude.

I only wished it was a collection of selected stories, but I'm just picky.

P.S. William Maxwell really did have a nose for good storytelling.