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| Original Title: | Oscar and Lucinda |
| ISBN: | 0702229784 (ISBN13: 9780702229787) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Oscar Hopkins, Lucinda Leplastrier, Reverend Dennis Hasset, Hugh Stratton |
| Setting: | Sydney, New South Wales(Australia) England |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize (1988), Miles Franklin Literary Award (1989), National Book Council Banjo Award for Fiction (1989), Colin Roderick Award (1988), The Best of the Booker Nominee (2008) |
Peter Carey
Paperback | Pages: 515 pages Rating: 3.73 | 19182 Users | 876 Reviews
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| Title | : | Oscar and Lucinda |
| Author | : | Peter Carey |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 515 pages |
| Published | : | January 29th 1998 by University of Queensland Press (first published 1988) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Australia |
Commentary As Books Oscar and Lucinda
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-nineteenth century Australia.
Peter Carey's visionary brilliance, and his capacity to delight and surprise, propel this story to its stunning conclusion.
Rating Out Of Books Oscar and Lucinda
Ratings: 3.73 From 19182 Users | 876 ReviewsJudge Out Of Books Oscar and Lucinda
lucinda has a fond memory of glass and buys a glassworks factory with her inheritence.oscar has fond memories of 'truth' and seeks a path divined by god.they are both lonely, gamblers and meet on a boat.Peter Carey writes so brilliantly as far as prose and language is concerned, and I liked Parrot and Olivier in America, but even though my friends like this one, I did NOT like this book. I did finish it as I needed to, but it was a push. I wanted to like it due to the prose, but I did not like either protagonist. I thought at first I was going to like Lucinda, but in the end, not enough to get me to enjoy this. Had I read this about 10 years before it was published (impossible, naturally) I
I can understand why Peter Carey is not for everyone. His novels tend to move slowly with a focus on subtlety. I find his work to be, much like the sentences he composes, charming. In "Oscar and Lucinda" we find subdued humor and understated actions that possess significant implications. Some might find this quiet approach boring, but I have a soft spot for novels that don't like to reveal too much at a time. In this particular novel, Carey does a masterful job of portraying the awkwardness of
In order that I exist, two gamblers, one Obsessive, the other Compulsive, must meet. A door must open at a certain time. The narrator is the great-grandson of Oscar Hopkins, and in this passage there followed an explanation of the other criteria that were necessary for Oscar and Lucinda to have met, which ultimately led to the family line surviving through the generations resulting in his own birth. Although the narrator never named himself, once (but only once), someone in his story called him
In order that I exist, two gamblers, one Obsessive, the other Compulsive, must meet. A door must open at a certain time. The narrator is the great-grandson of Oscar Hopkins, and in this passage there followed an explanation of the other criteria that were necessary for Oscar and Lucinda to have met, which ultimately led to the family line surviving through the generations resulting in his own birth. Although the narrator never named himself, once (but only once), someone in his story called him
I am declaring myself FINIS! but only because I'm horribly bored and can't take it any more.
Although I had heard of Parrot and Olivier in America, I wasnt really familiar with Peter Carey before I ran across Warwicks review of Illywhacker which you can find here. That review made me want to read some Carey, but I wanted to start with his most popular work which, according to GR ratings, is Oscar and Lucinda. It started out a bit slow, but gained momentum as I read on, so Im glad I stayed with it. The writing is wonderful and the beautifully drawn, vivid and nuanced characters give new
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