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Item Details
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OSCAR AND LUCINDA
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| By: |
Peter Carey |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£5.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571192920 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571192922 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
30 November, 1997 |
| Pages: |
528 |
| Language: |
English, Spanish |
| Description: |
Set on board an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour de force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. |
| Synopsis: |
Winner of the 1988 Booker Prize, this striking novel, set in Victorian England and Australia but told with a contemporary perspective, depicts the fatal and unrequited love shared by two remarkable misfits. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1988
Short-listed for Best of the Booker 2008 |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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