Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
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.
Paperback | 544 pages
19.7 x 12.9 x 2.7 | 362g
05 Jan 1998
University of Queensland Press
St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
Edition Statement: Media Tie-in
0702229784
9780702229787
Condition: Good
A vintage book that has been read but is in good condition. Some damage to the cover including scuff marks and creasing, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with very minimal creasing, but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.