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The transit of Venus / Shirley Hazzard ; introduction by Lauren Groff.
"The Transit of Venus tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in postwar 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780143135654
- ISBN: 0143135651
- Physical Description: xxi, 355 pages ; 20 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
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| Subject: | Sisters > Fiction. Australians > England > Fiction. Australians > United States > Fiction. Australians. Sisters. England. United States. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Domestic fiction. |
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The Transit of Venus
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The Transit of Venus
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 A Penguin Classic Considered "one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century" ( The Paris Review ), The Transit of Venus follows Caroline and Grace Bell as they leave Australia to begin a new life in post-war England. From Sydney to London, New York, and Stockholm, and from the 1950s to the 1980s, the two sisters experience seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal. With exquisite, breathtaking prose, Australian novelist Shirley Hazzard tells the story of the displacements and absurdities of modern life. The result is at once an intricately plotted Greek tragedy, a sweeping family saga, and a desperate love story.
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