Oscar And Lucinda
Set onboard 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. Australian writer...
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Set onboard 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. Australian writer Peter Carey is the author of a selection of short stories, "The Fat Man in History" and two novels, "Bliss" and "Illywhacker".
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571153046 (0571153046)
Publish date: June 19th 1989
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Pages no: 516
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Australia
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2008/10/review-oscar-and-lucinda-by-peter-carey.html
The Rushlight List - A novel for each and every country This was a slow read. Five-hundred pages shouldn't have been too daunting to a regular reader of epic fantasy, but I have to say that after the first few it was clear to me that Oscar and Lucinda was no page-turner. However, I was determined to...
The synopsis that I read of the book really doesn't encompass the meaning of the story, as the transporting of the "Crystal Palace" doesn't occur until the last quarter of the book. Lucinda is a bad-tempered young heiress, who didn't grow up in money, but came into early in adulthood. She desperatel...
Write a review...Hmm. This was just very odd, really. It was a slow starter, taking some time before Oscar & Lucinda met, and there was a certain rhythm to the early section of the book, with intiially long passages being concentrated on Oscar, then on Lucinda. This pace increased until the point th...
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