Oscar and Lucinda
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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
… More »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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Add a CommentThis wonderful piece of literature not only won the Booker prize the year it came out, it was also short-listed for the Best of the Booker. Mr. Carey may be one of the most gifted writers on the planet ... as one critic thoughtfully noted: "Carey writes some of the best sentences in English." So true. Extremely strong character development here and Dickensian plot. Loved Oscar ... hands-down my favourite fictitious character ever!
I heard good things about this book and really wanted to like it, but it was a hard read for me and ultimately, I lost interest before I finished the book. The characters are interesting but the style of writing is too detailed, to the point where I just don't care to know anymore. The story revolves around their religious beliefs, which also didn't interest me. The book is approx 4-5oo pages, can't remember exactly, but I read over 300 pages before I gave up.
This is an engrossing, rollicking tale peopled with unforgettable characters, from sensitive Oscar and feisty Lucinda to a range of unique villains and oddballs.