The Incident at Naples The Incident at Naples
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The Incident at Naples

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Publisher Description

Born in Australia, novelist Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city, in which the Naples of Pliny, Gibbon, and Auden constantly became reanimated by new experiences, as Hazzard was joined in her travels by her husband, the editor and critic Francis Steegmuller. In The Incident at Naples, a classic essay first published by the New Yorker, Steegmuller recollects on how he was, as a tourist to the city, robbed and injured and then treated in a series of hospitals. What can The Incident at Naples teach us? A town shadowed by both the symbol and the reality of Vesuvius can never fail to acknowledge the essential precariousness of life‒nor, as Hazzard and Steegmuller discover, the human compassion, generosity, and friendship that are necessary to sustain it.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2013
18 June
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
44
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Chicago Press
SELLER
Chicago Distribution Center
SIZE
167.6
KB

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