{"product_id":"the-transit-of-venus","title":"The Transit of Venus","description":"\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\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.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53781321843054,"sku":"9780140107470","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_70dfede3-9c60-47df-b384-fd566d72a792.jpg?v=1778943153","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/the-transit-of-venus","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}