Oscar and Lucinda
by Peter Carey
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0702221724
- ISBN 13
- 9780702221729
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About This Item
University of Queensland Press. Good. 18 x 12 centimetres. Paperback. 1988. 511 pages. Cover worn. <br>Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning nov el 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 ... .
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's Inventory #
- 1386ah
- Title
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Author
- Peter Carey
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0702221724
- ISBN 13
- 9780702221729
- Publisher
- University of Queensland Press
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 1988
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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