Oscar and Lucinda

by PeterCarey (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $3.25

  Set onboard an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour-de-force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. Australian writer Peter Carey is the author of a selection of short stories, The Fat Man in History and two novels, Bliss and Illywhacker .

• 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