Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda
Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2010-12-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0571267130


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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 set in Victorian times. Made for each other, the two are gamblers - one obsessive, the other compulsive - incapable of winning at the game of love.Oscar and Lucinda is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.


Oscar and Lucinda
Language: en
Pages: 545
Authors: Peter Carey
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-22 - Publisher: Faber & Faber

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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 h
Illywhacker
Language: en
Pages: 1119
Authors: Peter Carey
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-01 - Publisher: Vintage

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In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old
Amnesia
Language: en
Pages: 339
Authors: Peter Carey
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-13 - Publisher: Vintage

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The two-time Booker Prize winner now gives us an exceedingly timely, exhilarating novel—at once dark, suspenseful, and seriously funny—that journeys to the
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
Language: en
Pages: 432
Authors: Peter Carey
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-18 - Publisher: Vintage

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The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and The Tax Inspector now gives readers a hero, the malformed but ferociously wilful Tristan Smith, who bec
Parrot and Olivier in America
Language: en
Pages: 516
Authors: Peter Carey
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-20 - Publisher: Random House Canada

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From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author: an irrepressible, audacious, trenchantly funny new novel set in the 19th century and inspired in part by the life