OSCAR AND LUCINDA - - 1988 Booker Prize Winner - -
de CAREY, Peter
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- ISBN 10
- 0702221163
- ISBN 13
- 9780702221163
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St Lucia, University of Queensland Press REPRINT - hard cover in dust jacket Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken with his past (especially his father) and developed a disturbing talent for gambling. A country gitl of singular ambition, Lucinda moves to Sydney, driven by dreams of self-reliance and the building of an industrial Utopia. (edit.) 225 x 147mm., 14 (prelim.), 511. Contents, no inscriptions; d.j. slight creasing top spine, very small tear top front edge, slight rubbing. NEAR FINE/VG+ ISBN: 0702221163
Sinopsis
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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- Título
- OSCAR AND LUCINDA - - 1988 Booker Prize Winner - -
- Autor
- CAREY, Peter
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Edición
- REPRINT - hard cover in dust jacket
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0702221163
- ISBN 13
- 9780702221163
- Editorial
- St Lucia, University of Queensland Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Brisbane
- Fecha de publicación
- 1988
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- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
