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Availability:In StockContributor:Shirley HazzardAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1990-09-01Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140107470ISBN-10:140107479UPC:9780140107470Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, HistoricalAward:1980 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner - Fiction AwardSize:7.72 x 5.12 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCCHB0S91A
"The Transit of Venus is one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century." - The Paris Review

Finalist for the National Book Award
Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard--the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the transits of the planets themselves

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140107470ISBN-10:140107479UPC:9780140107470Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Family Life, HistoricalAward:1980 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner - Fiction AwardSize:7.72 x 5.12 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.5203Product ID:SCCHB0S91A
Shirley Hazzard (1931-2016) was born in Australia but traveled the world during her early years, a result of her parents' diplomatic postings. In 1947, at the age of sixteen, she was hired by British intelligence to monitor the civil war in China. In 1963, she married the writer Francis Steegmuller, who died in 1994. Hazzard wrote several novels, two of which were National Book Award finalists: The Bay of Noon (1971) and The Transit of Venus (1981). She is also the author of two collections of short stories and several works of nonfiction, including the memoir Greene on Capri. Hazzard's final novel, The Great Fire, won the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction and the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
Publisher: Penguin Books

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🏆 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner - Fiction Award

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