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PETER CAREY
Oscar and Lucinda
Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian
with a passion for gambling.
Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress
with a fascination for glass. The year
is 1865. When they meet on the boat
to Australia their lives will be
changed forever...
Daring, rich, intense and bizarre, Peter
Carey's new novel is a brilliant
achievement - a moving love story and
an historical tour de force that is also
powerfully contemporary. Oscar and
Lucinda is his finest work to date.
The publication of lIlywhacker established
Peter Carey as the most important
Australian writer of his generation. Oscar
and Lucinda places him in the front rank
of international fiction today.
Jacket illustration by Pierre le Tan