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Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be forever changed . . . Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Peter Carey's Booker prize-winning novel is a brilliant achievement - a moving love story and a historical tour de force that is also powerfully contemporary.
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- Title
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Peter Carey
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Limited
- Released
- 1989
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Religious Topics, Love, Classics, 19th century, Adapted for Film, Australia, Australian Literature, Colonialism, Sydney, Booker Prize
- First published
- 1988
- Original title
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be forever changed . . . Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Peter Carey's Booker prize-winning novel is a brilliant achievement - a moving love story and a historical tour de force that is also powerfully contemporary.