The Transit of Venus

Hazzard, Shirley

Two orphaned Australian sisters loose in the world; National Book Award winner in the United States and for others 'a second visit book', resisted on first reading, but a 'different' book second time around; Michelle de Kretser was one such reader: 'Why the fuss?' after her first reading, then twenty years later: 'But this is brilliant'; signed by the author.


Publisher: Viking. First American edition 1980
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: New York
Faint spots of foxing to extremities, else fine in dustwrapper.


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