The+Transit+of+Venus+by+Shirley+Hazzard

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=Book Summary= National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Hazzard here tells of two sisters, Grace and Caroline Bell. Born in Australia and orphaned at an early age, the two make their way to England. There Grace opts for marriage and its securities; Caroline reaches for more and loves not always wisely but well. "A strong, deep, poetic, vibrant novel," lauded PW. //-- Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.//

=About the Author= == Shirley Hazzard was born in 1931 in Sydney, Australia. As a child she travelled the world due to her parents’ diplomatic postings and at 16, worked for the British Intelligence in Hong Kong, monitoring civil war in China. After this she lived in New Zealand, Europe, USA and Italy. In the USA she worked for the United Nations Secretariat in New York. Since leaving this post she has been a full-time writer and passionate opponent of the United Nations, the subject of her book //Defeat of an Ideal: A Study of the Self-Destruction of the United Nations// (1973). She has also written non-fiction books //Countenance of Truth: the United Nations and the Waldheim Case// (1990) about the Kurt Waldheim case, and //Greene on Capri: A Memoir// (2000) about her friend, Graham Greene. In 1985, //Coming of Age in Australia// was published, a collection of her Australian Broadcasting Corporation Boyer lectures. Shirley Hazzard’s works of fiction include five novels: //The Evening of the Holiday// (1966); //People in Glass Houses// (1967); //The Bay of Noon// (1970); //The Transit of Venus// (1980); and most recently, after a break of over 20 years, //The Great Fire// (2003). This book was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Shirley Hazzard lives in New York. = =