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      The Transit of Venus

      by Shirley Hazzard
      Published
      Mar 1980
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      Contemporary Romance Contemp. Romance
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      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 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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      Contemporary Romance Literary

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      First Edition Mar 1980 Viking ISBN13 9780670724260 ISBN10 0670724262
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      May 1984 Berkley ISBN13 9780872168596 ISBN10 087216859X
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      Sep 1990 Turtleback Books ISBN13 9781417702992 ISBN10 1417702990
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      Dec 2020 Virago Press (UK) ISBN13 9780349015415 ISBN10 0349015414
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