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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.
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Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
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- Released
- 2011
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- Title
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Peter Carey
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 544
- ISBN10
- 0571270166
- ISBN13
- 9780571270163
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Religious Topics, Love, Classics, 19th century, Adapted for Film, Australia, Colonialism, Australian Literature, Sydney, Booker Prize
- First published
- 1988
- Original title
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- 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.