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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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- Titul
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Peter Carey
- Vydavatel
- University of Queensland Press
- Rok vydání
- 1988
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 511
- ISBN10
- 0702221724
- ISBN13
- 9780702221729
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletrie, Historické romány, Náboženská témata, Láska, Klasika, 19. století, Zfilmováno, Austrálie, Kolonialismus, Australská literatura, Bookerova cena, Sydney
- První vydání
- 1988
- Původní název
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Hodnocení
- 3,6 z 5
- Anotace
- 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.