The luminaries / Eleanor Catton.
"It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West Coast goldfields. On the night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end h...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Wellington, New Zealand :
Victoria University Press,
2013.
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| Summary: | "It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the West Coast goldfields. On the night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous sum of money 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 patterned as the night sky."--Publisher information. |
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| Item Description: | Novel. |
| Physical Description: | 828 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Awards: | Man Booker Prize, Winner, 2013 |
| ISBN: | 9780864738950 9780864739124 |