The Transit of Venus

Book Review: 'The Transit of Venus,' by Shirley Hazzard

Shirley Hazzard's “The Transit of Venus,” recently reissued, is a plushly written novel about two orphaned Australian sisters who arrive in ...

The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard - Goodreads

Read 894 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war …

The Transit of Venus - Wikipedia

The Transit of Venus ... For the astronomical phenomenon, see Transit of Venus. For other uses, see Transit of Venus (disambiguation). The Transit of Venus is a ...

Remembering Shirley Hazzard and “The Transit of Venus”

Shirley Hazzard, 1931–2016. By Matthew Specktor. December 19, 2016. In Memoriam. Photo: New York Society Library.

Book review of The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard - BookPage

The Transit of Venus (15.5 hours), Shirley Hazzard's 1980 novel and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, tells the story of two ...

The Transit of Venus - Books Are Magic

The Transit of Venus is considered Shirley Hazzard's most brilliant novel. It tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave ...

The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard - Penguin Random House

It tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in post-war England.

On Shirley Hazzard's The Transit of Venus - Believer Magazine

In fiction, death—like sex—is often overwrought. But in Hazzard, details are scant or nonexistent. Her revelations are built on concealment, withholding; the ...

Books - Shirley Hazzard - The Transit of Venus - Australia Explained

The Transit of Venus is the story of two sisters, Grace and Caro, whose parents have drowned during a ferry accident in Sydney. It charts their ...

Transit of Venus - Wikipedia

The periodicity is a reflection of the fact that the orbital periods of Earth and Venus are close to 8:13 and 243:395 commensurabilities. The last pairs of ...

Love Story Electrifies Beneath The Silhouette 'Of Venus' - NPR

Shirley Hazzard's 1980 novel Transit of Venus tells a sweeping, decades-long tale of two Australian sisters and three men, with a dash of ...

On Reading: Shirley Hazzard's The Transit of Venus

We celebrated a new edition of Shirley Hazzard's classic literary masterpiece The Transit of Venus with an all-star panel of Hazzard fans.

The Transit of Venus | Bookends & Beginnings

The Transit of Venus is considered Shirley Hazzard's most brilliant novel. It tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave ...

On Reading: Shirley Hazzard's The Transit of Venus - YouTube

With Lauren Groff, Stacy Schiff, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Meg Wolitzer, Min Jin Lee, and Geoff Dyer.

2012 Transit of Venus - NASA Eclipse Web Site

The last Venus transit was in 2004 so the second event of the pair will occur on Wednesday, June 6 (Tuesday, June 5 from the Western Hemisphere).

The Transit Of Venus by Shirley Hazzard | Hachette UK - Virago Books

The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparently happy marriage. But as the decades pass and the characters weave in and out of each other's lives, love, ...

What is the Transit of Venus? | Articles and Essays | Digital Collections

To avoid blindness, never observe the Sun without proper eye protection. Since the transit of Venus was first predicted and sighted by the English astronomer ...

The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard - Narrative Magazine

The novel is by turns funny, satirical, romantic, thrilling, tragic. Here's a love story on a grand scale that tracks the wayward journeys of planets and ...

Transits of Venus | The Royal Astronomical Society

A 'Transit of Venus' happens when Venus is seen in silhouette against the bright face of the Sun. Although Venus, the Earth and the Sun roughly line up every ...

The Year in Reading: Shirley Hazzard's “The Transit of Venus”

Hazzard's characters, who meet in England in the nineteen-fifties and pursue their passions through the decades, are by now old friends I'd recognize anywhere.