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Peter Carey''s novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in Victorian times. Made for each other, the two are gamblers - one obsessive, the other compulsive - incapable of winning at the game of love.

Oscar and Lucinda is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.

Oscar and Lucinda

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    A Paperback / softback by Peter Carey

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      Publisher: Faber & Faber
      Publication Date: 03/02/2011
      ISBN13: 9780571270163, 978-0571270163
      ISBN10: 0571270166
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Peter Carey''s novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in Victorian times. Made for each other, the two are gamblers - one obsessive, the other compulsive - incapable of winning at the game of love.

      Oscar and Lucinda is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.

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