Oscar And Lucinda

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Oscar And Lucinda, Peter Carey

The Booker winning novel from one of Australia's most exciting writers.

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  • Paperback
    $19.95 RRP
    ISBN: 9781741661057
    Published: 03/10/2005
    Imprint: Vintage Australia Historic
    Extent: 688 pages
  • EBook
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    ISBN: 9781742748917
    Published: 01/08/2012
    Imprint: RHA eBooks Adult
    Extent: 512 pages

The Booker winning novel from one of Australia's most exciting writers.

Oscar And Lucinda 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 singular ambition, Lucinda moves to Sydney, driven by dreams of self-reliance and the building of an industrial Utopia. Together this unlikely pair create and are created by the spectacle of mid-nineteenth century Australia.

Peter Carey's visionary brilliance, and his capacity to delight and surprise, propel this story to its stunning conclusion.

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"Luminous and magical, Oscar and Lucinda dances with a shimmer of light and dark as its two noble gamblers play out dreams of God and glass. A spectacular achievement." - Helen Daniel