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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
- Language
- Released
- 1988
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Peter Carey
- Publisher
- University of Queensland Press
- Released
- 1988
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 511
- ISBN10
- 0702221724
- ISBN13
- 9780702221729
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Romance, Historical Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, Classics, 20th century, Literary Fiction, Australia, 1980s, Booker Prize
- 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.