The Transit of Venus
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Vermilion
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.09.1990
Verlag
VermilionSeitenzahl
354
Maße (L/B/H)
19,9/12,8/1,6 cm
Gewicht
243 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-14-010747-0
" The Transit of Venus is one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century. It's difficult to make such a straight, simple claim without wanting to modify or amplify it, but it is. It is greater than any novel by Don DeLillo. It is greater than any work by Alice Munro or Thomas Pynchon. No disrespect to those three indisputable geniuses, or to anyone else whose books have been tagged, however deservedly, with the word masterpiece, but I'm hard-pressed to think of a better novel than Shirley's."
— The Paris Review
"An almost perfect novel . . . Hazzard writes as well as Stendhal."
— The New York Times
" The Transit of Venus is complex and luminous, like tapestries of mythological scenes, the craftsmanship admirable with no strand lost or insignificant, the details deliciously precise and the scope panoramic."
— Chicago Tribune Book World
"Shirley Hazzard is a worldly writer with a sense of humor; at one twist of her skewer, the trendy and the shoddy are impaled. The Transit of Venus is an old-fashioned novel of plainest elegance."
— Harper's Magazine
"Nothing gave me as much happiness as Shirley Hazzard's The Transit of Venus. Hazzard's prose is magic on the page, somehow at once surgical and symphonic . . . All the sentences are . . . small masterpieces that amount to a large one. Read it now, so you can read it again soon."
—Tad Friend, The New Yorker
"In The Transit of Venus, [Hazzard] 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."
— The Independent
"A luminous novel . . . almost without flaw. Aphoristic and iridescent, her language turns paragraphs into events."
— The Washington Post Book World
"An impressive, mature novel, full and satisfying . . . The richest fictional repast I have had in a long time."
—Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times
— The Paris Review
"An almost perfect novel . . . Hazzard writes as well as Stendhal."
— The New York Times
" The Transit of Venus is complex and luminous, like tapestries of mythological scenes, the craftsmanship admirable with no strand lost or insignificant, the details deliciously precise and the scope panoramic."
— Chicago Tribune Book World
"Shirley Hazzard is a worldly writer with a sense of humor; at one twist of her skewer, the trendy and the shoddy are impaled. The Transit of Venus is an old-fashioned novel of plainest elegance."
— Harper's Magazine
"Nothing gave me as much happiness as Shirley Hazzard's The Transit of Venus. Hazzard's prose is magic on the page, somehow at once surgical and symphonic . . . All the sentences are . . . small masterpieces that amount to a large one. Read it now, so you can read it again soon."
—Tad Friend, The New Yorker
"In The Transit of Venus, [Hazzard] 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."
— The Independent
"A luminous novel . . . almost without flaw. Aphoristic and iridescent, her language turns paragraphs into events."
— The Washington Post Book World
"An impressive, mature novel, full and satisfying . . . The richest fictional repast I have had in a long time."
—Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times
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