The Transit of Venus

…purpose in her modern tragedy The Transit of Venus (1980), an ironic love story devised to contemplate how strangely things come about. Like so much of Australian fiction, it looks for patterns of meaning that might indicate some kind of proportion in destiny.

…swelled with the publication of The Transit of Venus (1980), a novel of international scope and rich psychological texture that won the National Book Critics Circle award. The book’s omniscient narrative voice constitutes, by most evaluations, a stylistic tour de force. Hazzard did not publish another novel until 2003, when…