Oscar and Lucinda
by CAREY, Peter
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0702221163
- ISBN 13
- 9780702221163
- Seller
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London, Ontario, Canada
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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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- Bookseller
- Attic Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 138951
- Title
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Author
- CAREY, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Australian first edition
- ISBN 10
- 0702221163
- ISBN 13
- 9780702221163
- Publisher
- University of Queensland Press
- Place of Publication
- Brisbane
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- Literature, Australia
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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