Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

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Summary

Set on board an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour de force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass.

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Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

Set on board an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour de force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass.
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ISBN 13 9780571192922
ISBN 10 0571192920
Title Oscar and Lucinda
Author Peter Carey
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 1997-11-30
Number of pages 528
Prizes Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1988, Short-listed for Best of the Booker 2008
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.