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Oscar and Lucinda

Peter Carey
3.73/5 (18851 ratings)
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Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story.

Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken with his past and developed a disturbing talent for gambling. A country girl of singular ambition, Lucinda moves to Sydney, driven by dreams of self-reliance and the building of an industrial Utopia. Together this unlikely pair create and are created by the spectacle of mid-nineteenth century Australia.

Peter Carey's visionary brilliance, and his capacity to delight and surprise, propel this story to its stunning conclusion.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
515 pages
Publication:
1998
Publisher:
University of Queensland Press
Edition:
First Edition. first pb
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0702229784
ISBN13:
9780702229787
kindle Asin:
B004KABELU

Oscar and Lucinda

Peter Carey
3.73/5 (18851 ratings)
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Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story.

Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken with his past and developed a disturbing talent for gambling. A country girl of singular ambition, Lucinda moves to Sydney, driven by dreams of self-reliance and the building of an industrial Utopia. Together this unlikely pair create and are created by the spectacle of mid-nineteenth century Australia.

Peter Carey's visionary brilliance, and his capacity to delight and surprise, propel this story to its stunning conclusion.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
515 pages
Publication:
1998
Publisher:
University of Queensland Press
Edition:
First Edition. first pb
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0702229784
ISBN13:
9780702229787
kindle Asin:
B004KABELU

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