Oscar And Lucinda
by Carey Peter
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Cedar Creek, Queensland, Australia
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Synopsis
Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Peter Carey, which won the 1988 Booker Prize, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award. It tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, the Cornish son of a Plymouth Brethren minister who becomes an Anglican priest, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a young Australian heiress who buys a glass factory. They meet on the boat over to Australia, and discover that they are both obsessive gamblers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mammy Bears Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mbb006845
- Title
- Oscar And Lucinda
- Author
- Carey Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- University of Queensland Press
- Place of Publication
- St Lucia Q
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 220x145x45mm
- Bookseller catalogs
- Australiana; Romance;
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