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Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Peter Carey's two Booker Prize-winning novels, in one handsome hardcover volume. Oscar and Lucinda is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century Australia. Oscar, a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine, joins forces with Lucinda, a teenaged heiress who buys a glassworks to help liberate her sex. The resulting narrative tangle of love, commerce, religion, and colonialism culminates in a half-mad expedition to transport a glass church across the Outback. In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Australian outlaw Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, but to his own people he is a hero defying the authority of the English. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey brings the famous bushranger wildly and passionately to life.Peter Carey is Senior Consultant with PDP, and Consultant with London law firm, Charles Russell. He has been described by the British Computer Society as one of the UK's leading data protection experts. Peter is one of the UK's foremost trainers on data protection law and practice and he regularly provides bespoke data protection training courses to large organizations.
In his consulting capacity, Peter advises all types of organizations, including charities and law firms, on compliance with UK and EU data protection law. He provides expert advice in all fields of data protection law including the implementation of data protection compliance measures, the drafting of internal data privacy policies, the content of outsourcing agreements, the legality of marketing initiatives, issues relating to the export of personal data outside the EEA and data protection compliance for employers.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780679777502 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679777504 |
| Title | Oscar and Lucinda |
| Author | Peter Carey |
| Series | Vintage International |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1997-11-11 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Prizes | Winner of Booker Prize 1988 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |