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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 |
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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| 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) |
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Ratings: 3.72 From 59557 Users | 7748 ReviewsArticle Regarding Books The Luminaries
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.jeez!!! holy smokes, you guys!!i finished this book nearly a week ago now and have been struggling so hard with my thoughts on it. i didn't love it and i didn't dislike it, but there's something i just can't quite put my finger on here, that made the book feel kind of off for me. i had been anticipating this read so, so much, so i definitely feel disappointed. i don't think my expectations were sky-high and impossible though. i have not yet read catton's first novel, The Rehearsal, though i do
I LOVED this- best book I've read in a long time. It gripped me from the beginning. Its a very clever, very well plotted intrigue of a book. Layer upon layer is added to the intrigue and all is not revealed until the final pages. Highly recommended.May 2018Still loved this on rereading. The audio was excellent. God knows how the narrator managed to do so many varied accents so well. It is the time of the gold rush in New Zealand, the 1860s, where a rich and full cast are brought together in what
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
5 "superlative, intricate and fascinating" stars !! 4th Favorite Read of 2015 Wow just wow. This is a very long book and so I developed a quiz to see if you are a potential reader of this most amazing tome.1. Did you love "The Alienist" by Caleb Carr?2. Did you adore "Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel?3. Do you like your mysteries intelligent, complex and compelling?4. Do you like stories with elements of the supernatural, murder, blackmail and intrigue?5. Do you like your women wicked and your men
Twelve men meet at the Crown Hotel in Hokitika, New Zealand, in January, 1866. A thirteenth, Walter Moody, an educated man from Edinburgh who has come here to find his fortune in gold, walks in. As it unfolds, the interlocking stories and shifting narrative perspectives of the twelve--now thirteen--men bring forth a mystery that all are trying to solve, including Walter Moody, who has just gotten off the Godspeed ship with secrets of his own that intertwine with the other men's concerns.This is
The curious case of the 3-star review I reviewed The Luminaries for We Love This Book [a web magazine that is now defunct]; here Ill simply attempt to explain why I gave such an accomplished book only 3 stars. Its just the sort of book I should have given 5 stars: my MA is in Victorian Lit., Charles Dickens is a favorite author, and I adore historical fiction, particularly Victorian pastiche: Possession, The Crimson Petal and the White and English Passengers.And yet The Luminaries didnt grab
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