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Oscar and Lucinda
by Carey, Peter
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG++ND
- ISBN 10
- 057120063X
- ISBN 13
- 9780571200634
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 1999* Publisher: Faber & Faber.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers with black titles to face on an orange ground. Black & white titles to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear & a single reading crease to spine. Seems lightly used. VG++ * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations or marks to text. No tanning or other visible faults. Slight darkening and age to all edges. VG+* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 519 pp. text. xiv pp. glossary & blank pages at rear.* Product 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.* This is a VG++ text copy of the 1st./1st. fnl. with minimal shelf and reading wear reducing it to VG+.*
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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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9108
- Title
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Author
- Carey, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG++ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edn. 1st Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 057120063X
- ISBN 13
- 9780571200634
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London UK. 533
- Date Published
- 1999-04-05
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- Tight
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