Oscar and Lucinda
#597 of 8,085 books · #106 in Historical Fiction
Won the Booker Prize (1988).
Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in Victorian times. Made for each other, the two are gamblers - one obsessive, the other compulsive - incapable of winning at the game of love.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN-13
- 9780571267132
- Genre
- Topics
- Unspoken loveGambling and obsessionVictorian era society
Awards
- The Booker PrizeWonMajor(1988)
Other awarded books from Peter Carey
- True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)1 win · 16 score
- Parrot and Olivier in America (2010)0 wins · 8 score
- Illywhacker (2010)0 wins · 7 score
- A Long Way From Home (2018)0 wins · 3 score
- Theft: A Love Story (2010)0 wins · 2 score
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