Description
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.
Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Oscar and Lucinda is Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning historical novel set in Victorian times.
About the Author
Peter Carey received the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda and again for True History of the Kelly Gang. His novel, Parrot and Olivier in America, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2010. His other honours include the Commonwealth Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. Born in Australia, he has lived in New York for twenty years.
www.petercareybooks.com
Book Information
ISBN 9780571270163
Author Peter Carey
Format Paperback
Page Count 544
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 446g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 130mm * 32mm
