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OSCAR AND LUCINDA - - 1988 Booker Prize Winner - -
by CAREY, Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0702221163
- ISBN 13
- 9780702221163
- Seller
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East Victoria Park, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Synopsis
Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Peter Carey, which won the 1988 Booker Prize, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award. It tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, the Cornish son of a Plymouth Brethren minister who becomes an Anglican priest, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a young Australian heiress who buys a glass factory. They meet on the boat over to Australia, and discover that they are both obsessive gamblers.
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- Bookseller
- EUREKA AUSTRALIANA BOOKS
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13efa0ac8e6a28371e3acd1e
- Title
- OSCAR AND LUCINDA - - 1988 Booker Prize Winner - -
- Author
- CAREY, Peter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- REPRINT - hard cover in dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0702221163
- ISBN 13
- 9780702221163
- Publisher
- St Lucia, University of Queensland Press
- Place of Publication
- Brisbane
- Date Published
- 1988
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