Carey writes as if the world he has created, and his own private life, are at stake. 'As fine a love story and as fascinating an exploration as any reader could wish. 'The most original and rewarding novel to appear in the English language for many years.' Financial Times Oscar and Lucinda: movie tie-in edition (Vintage International) Kindle Edition by Peter Carey (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 482 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial The Booker Prize-winning novel-now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures. 'We have a great novelist living on the planet with us and his name is Peter Carey.' Los Angeles Times Book Review

Lucinda has inherited a glass factory she too likes to deal the cards. 'It fills me with wild, savage envy, and no novelist could say fairer than that.' Angela Carter, The Guardian Oscar is a compulsive gambler hell bet on anything, even his own happiness.

'Genius is a devalued, overworked word, but make no mistake about it, in that department Peter Carey has been richly blessed.' Punch Like the characters of Charles Dickens and Honore de Balzac, Mr Carey's creations are real in the simplest human sense.' Washington Times Love will prove to be their ultimate gamble. Peter Carey, quote from Oscar and Lucinda Copy text She had no criticism of his dress, which was bagged at the knees, dropping at the lapels, rucked around the buttons, while she-although she wore a flowing white cotton-appeared (she knew it and wished it was not so) as starched and pressed as a Baptist in a riding habit. When the two finally meet, on board a ship to New South Wales, they are bound by their affinity for gambling and risk, their loneliness, and their awkwardly blossoming mutual affection. Oscar and Lucinda (1997), set in mid-19th-century Australia and based on a novel by Peter Carey, was also well received.

Lucinda Leplastrier, a frizzy-haired heiress, impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser.

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