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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.
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Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
- Język
- Rok wydania
- 1988
- Oprawa
- (miękka)
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- Tytuł
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Język
- angielski
- Autorzy
- Peter Carey
- Rok wydania
- 1988
- Oprawa
- miękka
- Liczba stron
- 511
- ISBN10
- 0702221724
- ISBN13
- 9780702221729
- Seria
- Tagi
- Tematy religijne, Miłość, XIX wiek, Filmowa adaptacja, Australia, Kolonializm, Literatura australijska, Nagroda Bookera, Sydney
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1988
- Oryginalna nazwa
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Ocena
- 3,6 z 5
- Opis
- 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.