Oscar & Lucinda
by Carey, Peter
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060159081
- ISBN 13
- 9780060159085
- Seller
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Albany, California, United States
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About This Item
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
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LPB005663PC
- Title
- Oscar & Lucinda
- Author
- Carey, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US Edition/1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0060159081
- ISBN 13
- 9780060159085
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Bookseller catalogs
- Australian Literature;
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