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The Transit of Venus by Hazzard


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 - 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 ...

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 - Wikipedia

The Transit of Venus is a 1980 novel written by Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It won the 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award.

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 | 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A Rediscovered Writer: Shirley Hazzard's “The Transit of Venus” and ...

A Rediscovered Writer: Shirley Hazzard's “The Transit of Venus” and Brigitta Olubas's “Shirley Hazzard: A Writer's Life”. “At first, there is ...

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.

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.

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 ...

The Polite Rage of Shirley Hazzard | The New Republic

The astronomical event referenced in the title of Shirley Hazzard's novel The Transit of Venus occurs in two installments—eight years apart, ...

THE TRANSIT OF VENUS | Kirkus Reviews

A novel of empathy and depth, to be read with slow savor. ... Hazzard's most spacious fiction yet, spread over large expanses of time and situation that somehow ...

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, ...

The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard | book word

The novel's narrative stretches over 30 years allowing the characters and their relationships to be played out with the inevitability of the transit that gives ...

The Transit of Venus (Paperback) | McNally Jackson Books

I first read Shirley Hazzard's novel when I was nineteen, mooning around my father's house with a head cold. I liked it fine, and retained fond memories of the ...

The Transit of Venus - WHISTLESTOP BOOKSHOP

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard—the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving ...


The Transit Of Venus

Novel by Shirley Hazzard

The Transit of Venus is a 1980 novel written by Australian author Shirley Hazzard. It won the 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award.