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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)

Oscar and Lucinda Paperback | Pages: 515 pages

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Title	:	Oscar and Lucinda
Author	:	Peter Carey
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 515 pages
Published	:	January 29th 1998 by University of Queensland Press (first published 1988)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Australia

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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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How many ways you can tell a love story? How many types of lovers are there in the world? It tells about the two odd gamblers, Oscar Hopskins, a preacher's son and Lucinda, a heiress who buys a glass factory. The first one is obsessive and the other one is a compulsive gambler. They fell in love on their way to the 19th century Australia. Lucinda challenges Oscar that he cannot move the glass factory to another town and Oscar accepts the challenge and the end is I don't know. What I mean is if

So many conflicting feelings. The book is so exquisitely written and worked, the characters quite believable and Carey has a rare talent for writing believable and deeply explored female characters although male himself. The book is so tragic, unfolds into layers and layers of ever bleaker despair but with touches of humanity that make you long for joy.Is it a true story? It could be true. The thin blue line between greatness and madness is walked for the whole 500 pages. The chapters are

I've considered giving this book a fifth star. The writing was pretty much perfect, the story unique and the characters interesting and memorable. I also know I've given five stars to books that weren't nearly as well-written. I suspect I'm being stingy with that final star because the book didn't keep me riveted. It's not really a book you read to find out what will happen next but to take in and savor what you are reading now, and I'm not sure it's fair to punish a book for that. Still, I will

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

3.5 stars. The story of 2 socially-unacceptables, both of whom are gambling addicts and come into constant conflict with religion in very different ways. Not a warming tale and only partly a love story with some plausibility issues. While I personally did not connect, I am glad to say I have read Peter Carey.Honestly. I found his writing style somewhat annoying. The dialogue seems to drag on to the point of grating. And, imo, he overuses the phrase "he/she thought," including repeated instances

Peter Carey writes so brilliantly as far as prose and language is concerned, and I liked Parrot and Olivier in America, but even though my friends like this one, I did NOT like this book. I did finish it as I needed to, but it was a push. I wanted to like it due to the prose, but I did not like either protagonist. I thought at first I was going to like Lucinda, but in the end, not enough to get me to enjoy this. Had I read this about 10 years before it was published (impossible, naturally) I

She thought: When we are two, they do not notice us. They think us a match. What wisdom does a mob have? It is a hydra, an organism, stupid or dangerous in much of its behavior, but could it have, in spite of this, a proper judgement about which of its component parts fit best together? Peter Carey, Oscar and LucindaA book to love. A book to wade in, submerge into. A novel that tempts one to grab it around the middle and squeeze, even as it dances away like a shadow. It flickers like the quiet,