Oscar and Lucinda

by PeterCarey (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1988

  $3.25

  This novel tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1865. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be changed forever...Peter Carey is the author of The Fat Man in History , Bliss which won the Miles Franklin Award and the NSW Premier Award, and Illywhacker , which was shortlisted for the 1985 Booker prize.

• Used

  Paperback
  1988

  $3.25

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $14.52

  Winner of the 1988 Booker Prize, this striking novel, set in Victorian England and Australia but told with a contemporary perspective, depicts the fatal and unrequited love shared by two remarkable misfits.

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $21.27