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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, Peter Carey
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1988
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Peter Carey
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1988
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 511
- ISBN10
- 0702221724
- ISBN13
- 9780702221729
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historisches Thema, Romantik, Historische Romane, Gegenwartsliteratur, Klassiker, 20. Jahrhundert, Literarische Fiktion, Australien, 80er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts, Booker Preis
- 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.