back blurb - These twenty eight stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical send-ups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban CT. Hazard's heroes are high-minded romantics who struggle to accommodate their feelings to the twentieth-century world of office jobs and dreary marriages.
Hazard's writing and characters have an old fashioned touch, but in a good way. Her descriptions of world weary people going about their day, or dreading a dinner party are spot-on. Sharp humor, clever dialogue - her writing propels one to keep turning the page. I laughed out loud at times. One of my favorite sentences was something to the effect that the "woman looked like a resort town in the rain". Oh my! Can't you just picture it - bedraggled, a bit rough.
This book was a gem on sale. I now need to seek out her novels. Quite the find.
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