Oscar and Lucinda

by Peter Carey

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Perennial, 1995-07. Paperback. Very Good. Harper Row First edition-first printing. Tight and clean with no markings. Slightest of crease bottom front cover. Very minor soiling at bottom edge of pages.

Book summary

This whimsical novel, winner of the 1988 Booker Prize, is set in Victorian England and Australia, is the story of two highly unusual people: Oscar Hopkins, rebellious son of a disciplinarian preacher, and Lucinda Leplastrier, an heiress who has just bought a glass factory. The two meet on shipboard, fall in love, and find that they share an attraction for gambling and for risks--a taste that culminates in the precarious conveyance of a crystal church across the rough Australian outback. The novel was made into a major motion picture in 1997 starring Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett.