Oscar and Lucinda
True History of the Kelly Gang
$48.06
- Hardcover
936 pages
- Release Date
3 September 2019
Summary
Two novels in one hardback gift volume:
- Oscar and Lucinda
- True History of the Kelly Gang
by twice Booker winner Peter Carey
Oscar and Lucinda is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century England and Australia where the two potential lovers lead parallel lives until chance brings them together on board ship. A narrative tangle of love, religion, gambling, commerce, and col…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593968 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1841593966 |
| Author: | Peter Carey, Peter Giles |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 936 |
| Release Date: | 3 September 2019 |
| Weight: | 843g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 131mm x 43mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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A novel of extraordinary richness, complexity and strength … it brings the past, in all its difference, bewilderingly into our present. It fills me with a wild, savage envy and no novelist could say fairer than that. – Angela CarterThere is no greater triumph than fiction which engages with life’s tragedy and comedy both, and which acknowledges their inseparability. Oscar and Lucinda accomplishes this. Full of ideas – about religion, about nationhood, about individuality – it is never burdened by them: it is always fixed in the material world, in its endlessly surprising detail. – Claire Messud * Daily Telegraph *
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