The Luminaries
$22.40
- Paperback
834 pages
- Release Date
2 July 2014
Summary
‘There was this large world of rolling time and shifting spaces, and that small, stilled world of horror and unease - they fit inside each other, a sphere within a sphere.’
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West Coast goldfields. On the night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780864739889 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0864739885 |
| Author: | Eleanor Catton |
| Publisher: | Te Herenga Waka University Press |
| Imprint: | Victoria University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 834 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2014 |
| Weight: | 796g |
| Dimensions: | 59mm x 201mm x 134mm |
| Series: | Luminaries |
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About The Author
Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton was born in 1985 in Canada and raised in New Zealand. Her debut novel The Rehearsal won the Adam Prize and was Best First Book of Fiction at the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Internationally, it was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize, and longlisted for the Orange Prize, and won the 2009 Betty Trask Award. It has been published in 17 territories and 12 languages. Eleanor Catton holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she also held an adjunct professorship, and an MA in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. She lives in Auckland.
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