Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in Victorian times. Made for each other, the two are gamblers - one obsessive, the other compulsive - incapable of winning at the game of love.

Oscar and Lucinda is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.

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Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in Victorian times.

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

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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