Oscar And Lucinda
The Booker winning novel from one of Australia's most exciting writers.
Available Formats
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Paperback$19.95 RRPISBN: 9781741661057Published: 03/10/2005Imprint: Vintage Australia HistoricExtent: 688 pages
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EBookCHECK RETAILER PRICEISBN: 9781742748917Published: 01/08/2012Imprint: RHA eBooks AdultExtent: 512 pages
Synopsis
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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Editorial Reviews
"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
