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- 20 heures de lecture
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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.
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La Gaja scienza - 294: Oscar e Lucinda, Peter Carey
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 1990
- Reliure
- (rigide),
- État du livre
- Bon
- Prix
- 1,59 €
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- Titre
- La Gaja scienza - 294: Oscar e Lucinda
- Langue
- Italien
- Auteurs
- Peter Carey
- Éditeur
- Longanesi
- Publié
- 1990
- Format
- rigide
- Pages
- 567
- ISBN10
- 8830409294
- ISBN13
- 9788830409293
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Thèmes religieux, Amour, 19e siècle, Adapté au cinéma, Australie, Colonialisme, Littérature australienne, Prix Booker, Sydney
- Première publication
- 1988
- Titre original
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Évaluation
- 3,6 sur 5
- Description
- 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.