{"product_id":"transit-of-venus","title":"Transit of Venus","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eTransit of Venus\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eShirley Hazzard\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780140107470\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePenguin Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1990\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\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\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\n\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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Transit of Venus | Shirley Hazzard | Paperback | 9780140107470 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1687435","offer_id":48753946362008,"sku":"1687435","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/A1LXGZkVy2L.jpg?v=1774070070","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/transit-of-venus","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}