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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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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Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Oscar and Lucinda is Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning historical novel set in Victorian times.

Product details

ISBN
9780571270163
Published
2011-02-03
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Weight
446 gr
Height
197 mm
Width
130 mm
Thickness
32 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
544

Author

Biographical note

Peter Carey received the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda and again for True History of the Kelly Gang. His novel, Parrot and Olivier in America, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2010. His other honours include the Commonwealth Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. Born in Australia, he has lived in New York for twenty years.

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