The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
$20.00
Australian sisters Caroline and Grace Bell begin new lives in post-war England, taking different paths through love, marriage and disappointment. Their choices and entanglements unfold across decades in Shirley Hazzard’s intricate novel of intimacy, chance and the limits of what people know about one another. This is a vintage King Penguin paperback.
- Author: Shirley Hazzard
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Year: 1983
- Edition / printing: First Penguin edition 1981; copyright page lists reprints through 1983 (twice).
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 352
- Language: English
Condition: Cover edges and corners are rubbed, with light marking on the cream areas. Pages are strongly age-toned.
Book details
- Title
- The Transit of Venus
- Authors
- Shirley Hazzard
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Published
- 1983
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Paperback
- Edition
- First Penguin edition 1981; copyright page lists reprints through 1983 (twice).
- Subjects
- FICTION, VINTAGE BOOKS, LITERARY FICTION, AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE, PENGUIN BOOKS
- Page count
- 352
Collections: ALL BOOKS, ALL PRODUCTS, FICTION BOOKS, VINTAGE BOOKS
Type: FICTION
Category: AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE, BOOKS, FICTION, LITERARY FICTION, LOC022, PENGUIN BOOKS, SHIRLEY HAZZARD, VINTAGE BOOKS
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