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Oscar & Lucinda
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One of the most beautiful and haunting books I have ever read. I loved all of Peter Carey's novels, but this one is sheer magic. He has the ability to take the most common and mundane parts of life--a deck of cards, some seaweed, a piece of glass, and turn it into a fragment of a dream, full of life and color and a strange beauty. Even the main characters, who are the most awkward of outsiders, are wonderfully complex and thoroughly, terribly lovable. This book made me laugh, broke my heart, put it back together again, completely changed the way I read fiction. I couldn't recommend it more highly.
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Product Details
ISBN:
9780679777502
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
11/11/1997
Publisher:
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
Series info:
Vintage International
Pages:
448
Height:
.97IN
Width:
5.20IN
Thickness:
1.00
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1997
Series Volume:
PNW-58
UPC Code:
2800679777504
Author:
Peter Stafford Carey
Author:
Peter Carey
Author:
Peter Carey
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Young women
Subject:
Historical fiction
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Subject:
Australia
Subject:
Clergy
Subject:
Glass manufacture
Subject:
Gamblers
Subject:
Clergy -- Australia -- Fiction.
Subject:
Gambling
Subject:
Clergy -- Fiction.
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