{"product_id":"the-transit-of-venus-paperback-1","title":"The Transit of Venus - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eShirley Hazzard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Transit of Venus\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century.\" -\u003ci\u003e The Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe award-winning, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard--the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the transits of the planets themselves \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Transit of Venus\u003c\/i\u003e is considered Shirley Hazzard's most brilliant novel. 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. 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShirley Hazzard \u003c\/b\u003e(1931-2016) was born in Australia but traveled the world during her early years, a result of her parents' diplomatic postings. In 1947, at the age of sixteen, she was hired by British intelligence to monitor the civil war in China. In 1963, she married the writer Francis Steegmuller, who died in 1994. Hazzard wrote several novels, two of which were National Book Award finalists: \u003ci\u003eThe Bay of Noon\u003c\/i\u003e (1971) and \u003ci\u003eThe Transit of Venus\u003c\/i\u003e (1981). She is also the author of two collections of short stories and several works of nonfiction, including the memoir \u003ci\u003eGreene on Capri\u003c\/i\u003e. Hazzard's final novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction and the Miles Franklin Literary Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 7.72 x 5.12 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 1990\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award (1980)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51753679683872,"sku":"9780140107470","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/01f2e57f25455af13e534f0463166845.webp?v=1780025436","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-transit-of-venus-paperback-1","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}