Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard. 1980 Viking, first edition, signed by author, 337 pages. Hazzard was an Australian-American author and essayist best known for her novels Transit of Venus and the Great Fire. According to the NYT on a reissue of Transit: "The pleasure this writing affords — its plushness, patient description, etherizing beauty — does not stem from its closeness to life, however. The pleasure Hazzard wants to convey is novelistic and bound up in the act and fact of reading. "
Condition: Jacket in good-, wear and chipping, book good+, some fading, browning from a newspaper article tucked in the back endpaper
"By nightfall the headlines would be reporting devastation."
Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard. 1980 Viking, first edition, signed by author, 337 pages. Hazzard was an Australian-American author and essayist best known for her novels Transit of Venus and the Great Fire. According to the NYT on a reissue of Transit: "The pleasure this writing affords — its plushness, patient description, etherizing beauty — does not stem from its closeness to life, however. The pleasure Hazzard wants to convey is novelistic and bound up in the act and fact of reading. "
Condition: Jacket in good-, wear and chipping, book good+, some fading, browning from a newspaper article tucked in the back endpaper
"By nightfall the headlines would be reporting devastation."