The Transit of Venus

Autori

• Shirley Hazzard

Parametri

• 352 pagine
• 13 ore di lettura

• Australia
• Classici
• Narrativa
• Prosa storica

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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 eighties; and above all, of women and men in their passage through the displacements and absurdities of modern life

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 1990

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