Edition:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780571270163
Published:
03.02.2011
No of pages:
544
Other Editions: Paperback
Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey
Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be forever changed . . .
Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Peter Carey's Booker prize-winning novel is a brilliant achievement - a moving love story and a historical tour de force that is also powerfully contemporary.
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