Oscar & Lucinda.

by P Carey (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1988

  $3.45

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $3.45

  Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force. Made for each other, the two are gamblers - one obsessive, the other compulsive - incapable of winning at the game of love.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1988

  $3.45

  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.

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $22.62