“I had just turned 18,’’ she wrote in “In America,” “and a third of the way through burst into tears because I realized not only that I was Dorothea” - George Eliot’s earnest, self-deluding heroine - “but that a few months earlier, I had married Casaubon,’’ the dry doggy biscuit of a husband Dorothea had tricked herself into marrying, since none of the other “great men who odd habits it would have been glorious piety to endure” were available. Kennedy was shot.” Or when the twin towers fell. She's just such a treat.Two decades ago, Mary Gordon wrote that a “ certain kind of woman remembers what was happening in her life when she read ‘ Middlemarch,’ the way Americans are all supposed to know what they were doing when John F. It's the inner landscapes, the kind of minute, almost inevitable gestures and impulses that comprise human interaction that she's just so brilliant at registering, and in this sense I think she's truly the heir to Henry James. To me she personifies the word exquisite. "The Transit of Venus is maybe a perfect novel." -Rumaan Alam, The New York Times Book Review (podcast) "I cannot think of a more elegant writer. The richest fictional repast I have had in a long time." -Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times”
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Aphoristic and iridescent, her language turns paragraphs into events." - The Washington Post Book World "An impressive, mature novel, full and satisfying. The sense of fatality and patterning in this flawlessly constructed novel is strong." - The Independent "A luminous novel. Read it now, so you can read it again soon." -Tad Friend, The New Yorker "In The Transit of Venus, brings a clarity and steeliness reminiscent of classical tragedy to her material-an extraordinary achievement. small masterpieces that amount to a large one. Hazzard's prose is magic on the page, somehow at once surgical and symphonic. 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 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. 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. It is greater than any work by Alice Munro or Thomas Pynchon.
It is greater than any novel by Don DeLillo. It's difficult to make such a straight, simple claim without wanting to modify or amplify it, but it is. “" The Transit of Venus is one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century.
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