num_pages: 511
description: 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.
language: English
title: Oscar and Lucinda
titlecomplete: Oscar and Lucinda
characters: Reverend Dennis Hasset, Lucinda Leplastrier, Oscar Hopkins, Hugh Stratton
genres: Australia, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 20923
places: England, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Miles Franklin Literary Award, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: National Book Council Banjo Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Colin Roderick Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: The Best of the Booker
publisher: University of Queensland Press