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| Original Title: | The Luminaries |
| ISBN: | 0316074314 (ISBN13: 9780316074315) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | New Zealand |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize (2013), Dylan Thomas Prize Nominee (2014), Governor General's |
| Literary Awards: | / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général for Fiction (2013), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for International Book (2014), Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist (2014) Walter Scott Prize Nominee (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2013), Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for Fiction (NZ Post Awards) (2014), RSL Encore Award Nominee (2013), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2015) |
Eleanor Catton
Hardcover | Pages: 848 pages Rating: 3.72 | 59557 Users | 7748 Reviews
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It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve 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 fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: 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 a brilliantly constructed, fiendishly clever ghost story and a gripping page-turner.
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| Title | : | The Luminaries |
| Author | : | Eleanor Catton |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First U.S. Edition: October 2013 |
| Pages | : | Pages: 848 pages |
| Published | : | October 15th 2013 by Little, Brown and Company (first published August 24th 2013) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery |
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Ratings: 3.72 From 59557 Users | 7748 ReviewsCriticism Epithetical Books The Luminaries
This is my speech for the launch of Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries at Unity Books in Wellington, 3 August 2013. 'Fergus' is Fergus Barrowman, my husband, and Ellie's New Zealand Publisher. I was honoured that Ellie asked me to launch her novel.http://bit.ly/16T1j5hThe Wild, Wild West, a frontier filled with dreamers, convicts, schemers and entrepreneurs. Some hope to make that lucky strike, others attach themselves like parasites to stars on the rise and the canniest let the eager do the dirty work while they provide the booze, drugs and women for which all menregardless of their luckwill lay down cash money. This is the Gold Rush, the West Coast, the late 1860sbut were not in California, Toto. This is the South Island of New Zealand, circa 1866, in the
This is one of the most impressive books I have read in a long time. Complex and filled with fascinating characters that held my interest, in part because time and place were also so vivid and real. I found it very enjoyable!
EXCELLENT! It's really a masterpiece and hard to wrap my head around the idea that the author Eleanor Catton was only 28 when she wrote it and she won the Man Booker. Brilliant! IT took me a while to read it because the book is very dense. There's a lot to process all the time, however once you get past page 300 I feel things get a lot easier to process. I recommend the hardcover because the typography is well spaced in comparison to the paperback. Definitely a must read.
I'm a New Zealander like the author. Everyone here is raving about this book including people who write great novels themselves. I'm feeling pretty miserable about the fact that I couldn't get into it, forced myself to read halfway, started again and then gave up in despair. I liked the beginning, started to identify with the first character, Moody, then lost the plot when the other 14 or so main characters took over the story. The faux 19th century style felt slightly forced and the sentences
This needs no review, except to say that reading this was an experience I'll not soon forget (akin to reading The Goldfinch), and it has quickly become one of my favorite books of the year, if not of all time.-----Favorite Quotes::"Some folks are dealt a bad hand. But you can't rely on another person's conscience to live the life you want to live. You make do with what you're given; you struggle on.""For although a man is judged by his actions, by what he has said and done, a man judges himself
Wow, I have never ever in my life read a book like this before! A book that made me so confused that I was on the verge of giving up on ever understanding what was going on, but at the same time I was extremely intrigued and needed to know what was happening. I started out as a big question mark, I ended with a smile on my face and a "aha" coming out of my mouth. Still, I'm not confident that I've completely understood everything, but it feels great! It basically feels like Eleanor Catton took
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