The Luminaries
$15.00 USD • Used
Book has very light shelf wear and a remainder mark on the bottom edge. This, Catton's second novel, won the Man Booker Prize. It is an intricately crafted work that treats modern issues in the ma...
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Book has very light shelf wear and a remainder mark on the bottom edge. This, Catton's second novel, won the Man Booker Prize. It is an intricately crafted work that treats modern issues in the manner of a Victorian novel. Fascinating read.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 830 pages
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The winner of the Man Booker Prize, this "expertly written, perfectly constructed" bestseller (The Guardian) is now a Starz miniseries. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous cache of gold has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky. Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, The Luminaries is at once a fiendishly clever ghost story, a gripping page-turner, and a thrilling novelistic achievement. It richly confirms that Eleanor Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international literary firmament.Product Info
ISBN: 0316074292
ISBN-13: 9780316074292
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Year: 2014
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
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