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Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's 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 Carey's visionary brilliance, and his capacity to delight and surprise, propel this story to its stunning conclusion.
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Oscar and Lucinda, Laura P. Jones, Peter Carey
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- Publicado en
- 1997
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- Título
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Laura P. Jones, Peter Carey
- Editorial
- Faber & Faber
- Publicado en
- 1997
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 144
- ISBN10
- 0571192556
- ISBN13
- 9780571192557
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Novelas históricas, Temas religiosos, Amor, Clásicos, Siglo XIX, Adaptada al cine, Australia, Literatura Australiana, Colonialismo, Sídney, Premio Booker
- Primera publicación
- 1988
- Título original
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Calificación
- 3,6 de 5
- Descripción
- Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's 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 Carey's visionary brilliance, and his capacity to delight and surprise, propel this story to its stunning conclusion.