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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
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 1997
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- Titolo
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Laura P. Jones, Peter Carey
- Editore
- Faber & Faber
- Pubblicato
- 1997
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 144
- ISBN10
- 0571192556
- ISBN13
- 9780571192557
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Prosa storica, Temi religiosi, Classici, Amore, XIX Secolo, Adattato in un film, Australia, Letteratura Australiana, Colonialismo, Sydney, Premio Booker
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1988
- Titolo originale
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Valutazione
- 3,6 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.