The Transit of Venus

The Transit of Venus

The masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard (1931-2016), TheÂ Transit of Venus won the National Book Critic's 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.
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780140107470
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 1990-09-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780140107470

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