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Oscar & Lucinda
by Peter Carey
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0060915927
- ISBN 13
- 9780060915926
- Seller
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TORRINGTON, Wyoming, 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
- PRAIRIE CREEK BOOKS & TEA LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020312
- Title
- Oscar & Lucinda
- Author
- Peter Carey
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Paperbound Edition 1st Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0060915927
- ISBN 13
- 9780060915926
- Publisher
- HarperPerennial
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- Tradepaper
- Keywords
- Peter Carey, Fiction
Terms of Sale
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