Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

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Set onboard 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 onboard 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. Australian writer Peter Carey is the author of a selection of short stories, "The Fat Man in History" and two novels, "Bliss" and "Illywhacker".
SKU Non disponible
ISBN 13 9780571153046
ISBN 10 0571153046
Titre Oscar and Lucinda
Auteur Peter Carey
État Non disponible
Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur Faber & Faber
Année de publication 1989-06-19
Nombre de pages 528
Prix Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1988, Short-listed for Best of the Booker 2008
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