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Oscar and Lucinda : A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner) by Sir Peter Carey, Peter Carey is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Oscar and Lucinda : A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner) about?
Peter Carey’s rich and endlessly inventive tale about two unusual characters in 19th-century Australia won the Booker Prize in 1988. “Peter Carey is to Sydney what Joyce was to Dublin... an absolute master of language and storytelling” (Thomas Keneally).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-19th-century Australia.“It is Thomas Wolfe one is reminded of most when reading Peter Carey . . . they share that magnificent vitality, that ebullient delight in character, detail and language that turns a novel into an important book.” - The New York Times Book Review“[Oscar & Lucinda] is very, very hard to put down. There are many pleasures to be had here, chief among them the author’s gift for telling fascinating, entertaining stories... Like the characters of Charles Dickens and Honoré de Balzac, Mr Carey’s creations are real in the simplest human sense.” - Washington TimesPeter Carey is an Australian aut
Who reads Oscar and Lucinda : A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner)?
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
- Vintage Books; Vintage
- Published
- 1997
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307787132
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.72 / 5 (310 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13