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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a great question - I'm going to totally check out the suggestions you get!

The Transit of Venus, by Shirley Hazzard, is a book that definitely found the limits of my vocabulary, and also was written in a way that demanded attention.  And it had one of the best endings I've ever read (so hang in there - I found it tough going in the beginning but then I got into it.)

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Oh, I never meet anyone who knows of Hazzard. I know there's a low probability here, but are you by any chance a Barbara Pym fan?[/quote]

No, I haven't heard of her.  Why do you associate the two?

I'm somehow feeling this very peculiar sensation that lurking on DCUM has elevated me today, instead of encouraging me to wallow in the murkier depths of parenting!  :-)[/quote]

Hazzard was one of the British authors who called Pym a 20th-century Jane Austen and helped revive interest in her work in the 1970s, when she had been discarded by her publisher as too unfashionable. She had a unique voice and wrote small, quiet, sharply observed novels about middle-class English women. Nothing much happens in these books, but how I love them. I believe Shirley Hazzard called one of her novels "comic, heartbreaking and brave, like life itself," and she was one of many novelists who were Pym fans: Laurie Colwin, Anne Tyler, Joyce Carol Oates, and Penelope Lively are some of the others who come to mind. You might enjoy her.

And I love Transit of Venus and am going downstairs now to get it off the shelf and put it in the stack for a reread. Thanks for reminding me of it. Now we can crawl back into the usual DCUM mire of parenting and Ebola.  :) [/quote]

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