Oscar and Lucinda
Author: Peter Carey
Desc: Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story. Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken with his past and developed a disturbing talent for gambling. A country girl of singular ambition Lucinda moves to Sydney driven by dreams of self-reliance and the building of an industrial Utopia. Together this unlikely pair create and are created by the spectacle of mid-nineteenth century Australia. Peter Carey's visionary brilliance and his capacity to delight and surprise propel this story to its stunning conclusion.