The transit of Venus

The transit of Venus

Shirley Hazzard
Book - 1990

This book 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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hazzard, Shirley, 1931-2016
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1990.
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