Oscar and Lucinda

by Carey, Peter

1st US Edition

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Harper & Row, 1988. Hardback 1st US Edition Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Some very light edgewear, else fine. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1988. Story of Oscar, a flame-haired clergyman with a penchant for gambling, and Lucinda, an unconventional woman and owner of a glass factory, who meet on a boat for Australia in 1865. Both a love story and a searing indictment of colonial practice. Made into a film in 1997 starring Ralph Fiennes and Cate Blanchett. The U.S. edition has an additional chapter (Chapter 74, A Degree From Oxford), which does not appear in the British or Australian editions. ISBN: 0060159081

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