Hazzard, Shirley. The Transit of Venus

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The Transit of Venus
by Shirley Hazzard.

Penguin, Ringwood, 1990.
Reprint, paperback.

Cover painting: Pablo Picasso ‘La Toilette’.

“Hazzard’s great subject, already revealed in the early novels, is love. In The Transit of Venus, she brings a clarity and steeliness reminiscent of classical tragedy to her material – an extraordinary achievement. The sense of fatality and patterning in this flawlessly constructed novel is strong. Its devastating finale is prefigured in its first sentence, and seemingly trivial incidents reveal their significance as events unfold. Everything that happens seems determined by laws as inexorable as those that govern the stars. Hazzard’s sentences burst on the mind like a succession of illuminations.” Michelle de Kretser, The Independent, 8 March, 2013

Condition: Slight tanning to pages. Overall, in very good condition.