Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey - ISBN: 9781841593968
Hardcover
Gambling, love, and outlaws collide in nineteenth-century England and Australia.

Oscar and Lucinda

True History of the Kelly Gang

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  • Hardcover

    936 pages

  • Release Date

    3 September 2019

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Summary

Two novels in one hardback gift volume:

  • Oscar and Lucinda
  • True History of the Kelly Gang

by twice Booker winner Peter Carey

Oscar and Lucinda is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century England and Australia where the two potential lovers lead parallel lives until chance brings them together on board ship. A narrative tangle of love, religion, gambling, commerce, and col…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781841593968
ISBN-10:1841593966
Author:Peter Carey, Peter Giles
Publisher:Everyman
Imprint:Everyman's Library
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:936
Release Date:3 September 2019
Weight:843g
Dimensions:210mm x 131mm x 43mm
Series:Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
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Critics Review

A novel of extraordinary richness, complexity and strength … it brings the past, in all its difference, bewilderingly into our present. It fills me with a wild, savage envy and no novelist could say fairer than that. – Angela CarterThere is no greater triumph than fiction which engages with life’s tragedy and comedy both, and which acknowledges their inseparability. Oscar and Lucinda accomplishes this. Full of ideas – about religion, about nationhood, about individuality – it is never burdened by them: it is always fixed in the material world, in its endlessly surprising detail. – Claire Messud * Daily Telegraph *

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