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Oscar and Lucinda

por Carey, Peter

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ISBN 10
0571148123
ISBN 13
9780571148127
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London: Faber & Faber, 1988. [1988]. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Bound in full blue cloth. The spine is stamped in white. Octavo. 512pps. First printing. The pages are slightly tanned (as is ever the case with this edition due to the acid content of the stock), and there is a small soil-mark, faint, near the margin of the rear free endpage. Otherwise clean, tight, and square. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has touches of crinkling at the extremities; the original price (10.95) is intact. A very nice, collector's-quality copy of this Booker Award winner (Carey's first such award). ".This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent -- a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms -- could a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine become allied with a teenaged heiress who buys a glassworks to help liberate her sex. And only the prodigious imagination of Peter Carey could implicate Oscar and Lucinda in a narrative of love and commerce, religion and colonialism, that culminates in a half-mad expedition to transport a glass church across the Outback." Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks Of Books. To assist with your decision, photos can be emailed upon request.. First Edition. Hard Cover.

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Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Peter Carey, which won the 1988 Booker Prize, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award. It tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, the Cornish son of a Plymouth Brethren minister who becomes an Anglican priest, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a young Australian heiress who buys a glass factory. They meet on the boat over to Australia, and discover that they are both obsessive gamblers.

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Livreiro
Nooks Of Books US (US)
Nº do estoque do livreiro
107-5201
Título
Oscar and Lucinda
Autor
Carey, Peter
Formato/Encadernação
Capa dura
Estado do livro
Usado
Edição
First Edition
ISBN 10
0571148123
ISBN 13
9780571148127
Editorial
Faber & Faber
Local de publicação
London
Data de publicação
1988
Palavras-chave
PETER CAREY OSCAR AND LUCINDA SIGNED FIRST EDITIONS LITERATURE FICTION AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS AUSTRALIA NINETEENTH CENTURY HISTORICAL HOPKINS LEPLASTRIER SYDNEY COLLECTIBLE USED BOOKS NOVELS BOOKER AWARD
Catálogos de livreiros
Literature & Fiction, World;

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Fine
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Octavo
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