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The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
The bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning novel hailed as a true achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, and in so doing created a novel for the 21st, something utterly new. The pages fly.--New York Times Book Review 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.
Catton, Eleanor: - Eleanor Catton's debut, The Rehearsal -- which Kate Atkinson called compulsively good...it continually calls into question the relationship between so-called reality and fiction, and the very nature of truth itself -- won the 2009 Betty Trask Award, was short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize, and was long-listed for the Orange Prize. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an MA in fiction writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters. She lives in Auckland, New Zealand.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780316074315 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316074314 |
| Title | The Luminaries |
| Author | Eleanor Catton |
| Series | Man Booker Prize For Fiction |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little Brown and Company |
| Year published | 2013-10-15 |
| Number of pages | 848 |
| Prizes | Winner of Man Booker Prize (Novel) 2013, Winner of Governor General's Literary Awards (Fiction) 2013, Short-listed for Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (Fiction) 2014, Short-listed for Dylan Thomas Prize (Literary Excellence) 2014 |
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