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   Oct 16, 2013 · “The Luminaries,” Eleanor Catton’s remarkable second novel — the winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize — is a lot of things, and I mean a lot, but above all, perhaps, it is a love story, one...

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   Aug 24, 2013 · The Luminaries. Eleanor Catton. 3.75. 82,278ratings9,609reviews. Kindle $12.99. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Historical Fiction (2013) It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields.

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3. thebookerprizes.com › the-booker-library › features‘When I finished it, I felt immortal’: How Eleanor Catton ...

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   Mar 3, 2023 · The Luminaries was longlisted for the prize before its publication date, a source of great triumph to what Porter names ‘Team Catton’ (those who had aided the book’s publication, as well as Catton’s family), and more broadly to Catton herself over the past decade.

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4. www.kirkusreviews.com › book-reviews › eleanorTHE LUMINARIES - Kirkus Reviews

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   Oct 15, 2013 · A bunch of ever-so-mandarin college kids in a small Vermont school are the eager epigones of an aloof classics professor, and in their exclusivity and snobbishness and eagerness to please their teacher, they are moved to try to enact Dionysian frenzies in the woods.

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5. thebookerprizes.com › books › the-luminariesThe Luminaries - The Booker Prizes

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   Aug 1, 2013 · The Luminaries. Written by Eleanor Catton. Won the 2013 Booker Prize. Eleanor Catton’s fiendishly clever novel is both a ghost story and gripping mystery, it richly evokes a mid-19th century world of goldrush boom and bust. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields.

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6. www.independent.co.uk › arts-entertainment › booksReview: The Luminaries, By Eleanor Catton - The Independent

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   Aug 31, 2013 · Review: The Luminaries, By Eleanor Catton. However you read this rangy, enormous, brilliant novel, make sure you do before its scope is crushed by a cinema or television adaptation

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   Is the luminaries a good book?

   • 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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   Why was the luminaries longlisted?

   • The Luminaries was longlisted for the prize before its publication date, a source of great triumph to what Porter names ‘Team Catton’ (those who had aided the book’s publication, as well as Catton’s family), and more broadly to Catton herself over the past decade.

   ‘When I finished it, I felt immortal’: How Eleanor Catton wrote The

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   Should I read luminaries?

   • Definitely a must read. Sometimes you read a book, and don't realise how good it is until the end. Luminaries was a fine example for me. It felt like a masterpiece the moment I finished it. Highly recommended. The Wild, Wild West, a frontier filled with dreamers, convicts, schemers and entrepreneurs.

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   Is 'the luminaries' a true achievement?

   • “The Luminaries” is a true achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, and in so doing created a novel for the 21st, something utterly new.

   Eleanor Catton’s Booker Prize-Winning ‘Luminaries’ - The New York Times

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   Is the luminaries a book without a beating heart?

   • I can’t help feeling that despite its technical perfection, The Luminaries is a book without a beating heart.Lest I seem unfair, here are some more of the novel’s strengths: Catton proves a dab hand at revealing characters through both minute physical description and acute psychological insight.

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   Is the luminaries a Victorian novel?

   • The Luminaries certainly is a pastiche of a kind, though it was never so overwhelmingly Victorian in its style as I expected after seeing a well-known book blogger mention how he abandoned it: "Jeanette Winterson said, "If you want to read 19th-century novels, you may as well read the real thing, and not go out and buy a reproduction."

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8. www.sparknotes.com › lit › The-LuminariesThe Luminaries: Study Guide - SparkNotes

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   The Luminaries is a novel by Eleanor Catton. It was published in 2013 to enormous critical acclaim, as critics praised the 834-page book as an epic, contemporary take on the sprawling classic novels of the 19th century.