Oscar e Lucinda
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789722037594
Publish date: 2009
Publisher: Dom Quixote
Pages no: 520
Edition language: Portuguese
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Australia
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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...