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Oscar and Lucinda by Sir Peter Carey, Peter Carey is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Oscar and Lucinda about?
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-ninete
Who reads Oscar and Lucinda?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Sir Peter Carey, Peter Carey
- Publisher
- St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780702221729
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Music, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.72 / 5 (15,343 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Oscar and Lucinda : A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner) (2011)
- Oscar and Lucinda (1988)
- Oscar and Lucinda (1989)
- Oscar and Lucinda : A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner) (1997)
- Oscar and Lucinda (2001)
- Oscar and Lucinda : A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner) (1989)
- Oscar and Lucinda : A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner) (1988)
- Oscar And Lucinda (2015)
- Oscar & Lucinda (Tie-In) (1997)
- Oscar and Lucinda : A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner) (1998)
- Faber And Faber Oscar And Lucinda (2008)
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