false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173712561m/316496.jpg 316496 31 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. 2304710 book 1988 Oscar and Lucinda total:1175|5:321|4:390|3:312|2:113|1:39| 1175 4366 1917 138 4 5 false false Sat May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 19:08:36 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 17:21:14 -0700 2008
For the past few years, I've thought about endings a lot. I've excused a lot of novels (esp contemporary ones) for bad or unsatisfying endings. Some novels end in a way that goes against all yo...more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jul 06 17:54:35 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 17:56:23 -0700 2007 oscar has fond memories of 'truth' and seeks a path divined by god.
they are both lonely, gamblers and meet on a boat.]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Jul 02 23:34:10 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 27 17:49:30 -0700 2007
Even though it didn't improve my circumstances or se...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 12:55:29 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 13:58:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun May 25 15:43:21 -0700 2008 Sun May 25 15:47:28 -0700 2008 2 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Wed Sep 12 20:46:26 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 20:53:24 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Tue Mar 10 06:43:20 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 13:59:48 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 06:43:20 -0700 2009 Father and Son. The ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 08 07:13:58 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 07:14:41 -0700 2009 Anyway, this wonderful tale of the inevitable love between two people on the fringes of respectability and its catastrophic consequences is told by Oscar's desce...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 1996 Thu Aug 13 12:14:35 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 16:41:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 21:57:27 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 13:57:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 19:50:46 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 17:59:37 -0700 2008
Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda was a great trip for me. I loved being immersed in th...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Feb 12 08:50:39 -0800 2008 Wed Sep 03 06:22:03 -0700 2008
a) don't see the movie unless you read the book...something gets really lost between the two

b)Excellent, simply excellent!!! I would recommend this book to anyone who appreciates superlative writing and a quirky story. If every book were like this on...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 06 01:57:42 -0700 2007 Sun Sep 21 06:35:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Aug 11 14:35:13 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 15:59:11 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 14:35:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 02 10:40:19 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 10:45:13 -0700 2009 i am having a hard time understanding why i liked this book. this is a 20th century writer writing in the style of a 19th cent writer. are all of his books written thusly ? it is a fascinating book which helped me to picture the people and places of 19th cent australia. the characters are rea...more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Sep 17 07:26:24 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 21 08:28:19 -0800 2007 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Aug 02 10:57:12 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 10:59:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Feb 22 14:28:20 -0800 2007 Sun Jul 12 08:05:28 -0700 2009
This is one of my favorite books EVAR. It's weird, gothic, grotesque, delicate, intric...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Oct 23 14:26:17 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 14:30:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 26 07:38:13 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 07:41:14 -0800 2009
A lovely book worth savoring. Sumptuous language, thick and rich sentences with (at times) challenging syntax, playful chapter titles, complicated and charming characters. To own, along with Kelly Gang. Worth reading the two b...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=316496