The transit of Venus

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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 ei…

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Full title :The transit of Venus / Shirley Hazzard.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:1990.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Penguin Books
Place of Publication:New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language:eng
Publication Date:1990.

The Physical Object

Description:337 pages ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780140107470, 0140107479
oclc:ocm21078659
LC Classification:PR9619.3.H369
Dewey Decimal:823

Subjects

Australia Australia -- Fiction Australians Australians -- Fiction. -- England Australians -- Fiction. -- United States Australie -- Romans, nouvelles, etc Australiens -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. … Australiens -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. … England Fiction Fictional Work Romans Sisters Sisters -- Fiction Sœurs -- Romans, nouvelles, etc United States