The Luminaries
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Catton, Eleanor
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Little, Brown and Company 2013
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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.

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Street Date:
10/15/2013
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780316174459, 9780316126953
ASIN:
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Eleanor Catton. (2013). The Luminaries. Little, Brown and Company.

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Eleanor Catton. 2013. The Luminaries. Little, Brown and Company.

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Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries. Little, Brown and Company, 2013.

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Eleanor Catton. The Luminaries. Little, Brown and Company, 2013.

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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...
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