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The Transit of Venus

By Shirley Hazzard

The Transit of Venus Contemporary literature

The Transit of Venus

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The masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard (1931-2016), The Transit of Venus won the National Book Critics' Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. The Transit of Venus is considered Shirley Hazzard's most brilliant novel. It tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in post-war England. What happens to these young women--seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal--becomes as moving and wonderful and yet as predestined as the transits of the planets themselves. Gorgeously written and intricately constructed, Hazzard's novel is a story of place: Sydney, London, New York, Stockholm; of time: from the fifties to the eighties; and above all, of women and men in their passage through the displacements and absurdities of modern life.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
354
Release Date:
1990-11-29
Publication Date:
1990-09-01
Publisher:
Random House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0140107479
ISBN13:
9780140107470
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
243 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
199 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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