Oscar & Lucinda
by Carey, Peter
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Lakewood, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Harper & Row, 1988 Slightest of wear to book and dust jacket; winner of the Booker Prize; signed bookplate by Carey laid in. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.
Synopsis
Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Peter Carey, which won the 1988 Booker Prize, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award. It tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, the Cornish son of a Plymouth Brethren minister who becomes an Anglican priest, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a young Australian heiress who buys a glass factory. They meet on the boat over to Australia, and discover that they are both obsessive gamblers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Evergreen Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0206
- Title
- Oscar & Lucinda
- Author
- Carey, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Date Published
- 1988
Terms of Sale
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Evergreen Books LLC
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Lakewood, Colorado
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...