Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

Oscar and Lucinda

Peter Carey

448 pages first pub 1988 (view editions)

fiction historical literary adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced
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Readers who enjoy introspective, emotionally layered historical fiction exploring themes of unconventional love and personal redemption through richly drawn, flawed characters will find "Oscar and Lucinda" compelling.

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The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures. 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...

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