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The transit of Venus / Shirley Hazzard.

by Hazzard, Shirley, 1931-2016

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New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1990.

Australians -- United States -- Fiction.

Australians -- England -- Fiction.

Sisters -- Fiction

Australia -- Fiction.

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1206/90006813-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1206/90006813-d.html

337 p. ; 20 cm.

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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