Title Oscar and Lucinda / Peter Carey

Published St. Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 1988

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'PONDS	827.03 C2753 A6/O		AVAILABLE
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MELB	827.03 C2753 A6/O		AVAILABLE
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W'BOOL	827.03 C2753 A6/O		AVAILABLE

Description 511 pages ; 23 cm regular print Contents Winner of the Booker Prize, 1988 Summary Award winning novel telling the story of Oscar Hopkins, the Cornish son of a Plymouth Brethren minister who becomes an Anglican priest, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a young Australian heiress who buys a glass factory. They meet on the boat over to Australia, and discover that they are both obsessive gamblers. Lucinda bets Oscar that he cannot transport a glass church from Sydney to a remote settlement at Bellingen, some 400 km up the New South Wales coast. Includes deadly encounters with Aboriginal people Analysis Australian Notes Booker Prize winner 1988 Copy 2 pbk. reprint(1994). Pagination differs slightly (515 p.: 20cm.) Man Booker prize, 1988 Subject Australian fiction. Man Booker Prize. Clergy -- Fiction. Clergy -- Australia -- Fiction. Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia -- Fiction. Gamblers -- Fiction. Glass manufacture -- Fiction. Literary prizes. Relationships -- Fiction Young women -- Fiction. SUBJECT Australia -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315 -- 1975 -- Fiction Australia -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473 Australia -- History -- 1788-1900 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009593 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Genre/Form Movie novels. Fiction. LC no. 2200002172 ISBN 0702221163 0702221724 0702229784

Other Titles Oscar & Lucinda Oscar & Lucinda

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