Oscar And Lucinda

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penguin
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: Reprint

Description: 699 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Peter Careys Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australias youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story. Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken with his past and developed a disturbing talent for gambling. A country girl of singular ambition, Lucinda moves to Sydney, driven by dreams of self-reliance and the building of an industrial Utopia. Together this unlikely pair create and are created by the spectacle of mid-nineteenth century Australia. Peter Careys visionary brilliance, and his capacity to delight and surprise, propel this story to its stunning conclusion.

ISBN: 9780143571230