Oscar and Lucinda
by Carey, Peter
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Rutherglen, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Synopsis
Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Peter Carey, which won the 1988 Booker Prize, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award. It tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, the Cornish son of a Plymouth Brethren minister who becomes an Anglican priest, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a young Australian heiress who buys a glass factory. They meet on the boat over to Australia, and discover that they are both obsessive gamblers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tapsell's Books and Music (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3390
- Title
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Author
- Carey, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- UQP
- Place of Publication
- St Lucia
- Date Published
- 1988
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts; Australian Literature;
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