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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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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1997
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- Titel
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Laura P. Jones, Peter Carey
- Verlag
- Faber & Faber
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1997
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 144
- ISBN10
- 0571192556
- ISBN13
- 9780571192557
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Religiöse Themen, Klassiker, Liebe, 19. Jahrhundert, Verfilmt, Australien, Australische Literatur, Kolonialismus, Sydney, Booker Preis
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1988
- Originaltitel
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Bewertung
- 3,6 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.