The Luminaries
Description:
Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and set during the heady days of New Zealand’s Gold Rush, The Luminaries is a magnificent novel of love, lust, murder, and greed, in which three unsolved crimes link the fates and fortunes of twelve men. Dickens meets Deadwood in this internationally celebrated phenomenon.
In January 1866, young Walter Moody lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the west coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind a family scandal. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to investigate what links three crimes that occurred on a single day: the town’s wealthiest man has vanished. An enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. A prostitute has supposedly tried to end her life. But nothing is quite as it seems. As the men share their stories, what emerges is an intricate network of alliances and betrayals, secrets and lies, that is as exquisitely patterned as the night sky.
Part mystery, part fantastical love story, and intricately structured around the zodiac and the golden mean (each chapter is half the length of the preceding one), The Luminaries weaves together the changing fates and fortunes of an entire community, one where everyone has something to hide. Rich with character and event, it is a gripping page-turner – and a unique, atmospheric world – in which readers will gladly lose themselves. It confirms Eleanor Catton’s reputation as one of the most exciting and innovative novelists writing today.
Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9780771019104
Related Books
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- The Luminaries (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)Catton, EleanorISBN-13:9780606358804
- Sex Discrimination and the Law: Causes and RemediesBabcock, BarbaraISBN-13:9780316074209
- The LuminariesCatton, EleanorEdition:ReprintISBN-13:9780316074292
- The Luminaries: A Novel (Man Booker Prize)Catton, EleanorEdition:First EditionISBN-13:9780316074315
- The Luminaries (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)Catton, EleanorISBN-13:9780606358804
- Sex Discrimination and the Law: Causes and RemediesBabcock, BarbaraISBN-13:9780316074209
Frequently Asked Questions about The Luminaries
The price for the book starts from $13.56 on Amazon and is available from 26 sellers at the moment.
At BookScouter, the prices for the book start at $2.61. Feel free to explore the offers for the book in used or new condition from various booksellers, aggregated on our website.
If you’re interested in selling back the The Luminaries book, you can always look up BookScouter for the best deal. BookScouter checks 30+ buyback vendors with a single search and gives you actual information on buyback pricing instantly.
As for the The Luminaries book, the best buyback offer comes from and is $ for the book in good condition.
The The Luminaries book is in very low demand now as the rank for the book is 5,948,183 at the moment. A rank of 1,000,000 means the last copy sold approximately a month ago.
The highest price to sell back the The Luminaries book within the last three months was on October 15 and it was $1.19.