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Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel 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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Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
- Taal
- Jaar van publicatie
- 1988
- Bindwijze
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Peter Carey
- Uitgever
- University of Queensland Press
- Jaar van publicatie
- 1988
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 511
- ISBN10
- 0702221724
- ISBN13
- 9780702221729
- Reeks
- Tags
- Fictie, Historisch thema, Romantiek, Historische romans, Hedendaagse literatuur, Klassiekers, 20e Eeuw, Maatschappelijke romans, Australië, Jaren '80 van de 20e eeuw, Booker Prize
- Aantekening
- Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel 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.