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| Original Title: | Oscar and Lucinda |
| ISBN: | 0702229784 (ISBN13: 9780702229787) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Oscar Hopkins, Lucinda Leplastrier, Reverend Dennis Hasset, Hugh Stratton |
| Setting: | Sydney, New South Wales(Australia) England |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize (1988), Miles Franklin Literary Award (1989), National Book Council Banjo Award for Fiction (1989), Colin Roderick Award (1988), The Best of the Booker Nominee (2008) |
Peter Carey
Paperback | Pages: 515 pages Rating: 3.73 | 19182 Users | 876 Reviews
Explanation Toward Books Oscar and Lucinda
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.
List Of Books Oscar and Lucinda
| Title | : | Oscar and Lucinda |
| Author | : | Peter Carey |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 515 pages |
| Published | : | January 29th 1998 by University of Queensland Press (first published 1988) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Australia |
Rating Of Books Oscar and Lucinda
Ratings: 3.73 From 19182 Users | 876 ReviewsEvaluation Of Books Oscar and Lucinda
Loved the characters and setting, a really intricate, fascinating book.I seem to be on a bit of a roll with my Australian authors at the moment - and I must confess, Peter Carey (despite being mega famous) was new to me. I had zero concept of what the book would be about - perhaps I was expecting some sort of love story, set in the Australian outback? However, surprisingly I got a red-headed gambler, a wealthy Australian heiress, a glass factory, and lots more besides.PlotOscar lives in DevonI picked this book up at a charity book shop a few weeks ago. Its hard to say no to a Booker winner for £1, even if it is 30+ years old.I found this a confusing book to read. About one-third of the way through I made a note that said this seems to have suddenly become a different book. It changed tone and became much darker, but it seemed to do it in the turn of a single page. And then it changed again toward the end and it goes to some very dark places in its final sections. This is all
For the past few years, I've thought about endings a lot. I've excused a lot of novels (esp contemporary ones) for bad or unsatisfying endings. Some novels end in a way that goes against all you've learned from the novel; others just... stop. Then there are the "conservative" endings of Victorian novels that many scholars complain "shut down" or tidy the "subversive" or threatening ideas raised in the novel. Lately I've found myself arguing against this complaint, because even if a novel ends
Although I had heard of Parrot and Olivier in America, I wasnt really familiar with Peter Carey before I ran across Warwicks review of Illywhacker which you can find here. That review made me want to read some Carey, but I wanted to start with his most popular work which, according to GR ratings, is Oscar and Lucinda. It started out a bit slow, but gained momentum as I read on, so Im glad I stayed with it. The writing is wonderful and the beautifully drawn, vivid and nuanced characters give new
lucinda has a fond memory of glass and buys a glassworks factory with her inheritence.oscar has fond memories of 'truth' and seeks a path divined by god.they are both lonely, gamblers and meet on a boat.
Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes" Jorge Luis BorgesSo the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads. Dr. SeussWhat a pity. There hasn't been a book that has annoyed me as much as this one. I can't take this prose style anymore. It talks about 2 "outcasts", I couldn't find a plausible reason other than their own assumptions
In order that I exist, two gamblers, one Obsessive, the other Compulsive, must meet. A door must open at a certain time. The narrator is the great-grandson of Oscar Hopkins, and in this passage there followed an explanation of the other criteria that were necessary for Oscar and Lucinda to have met, which ultimately led to the family line surviving through the generations resulting in his own birth. Although the narrator never named himself, once (but only once), someone in his story called him
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