Medium Paperback, Good Condition, 1989, 511 pages, ISBN 0 7022 2172 4

Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey

Peter Carey’s novel imagines Australia’s youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story.

“Oscar and Lucinda is a novel of extraordinary richness, complexity and strength – it is a peopled world, humming, buzzing, dancing with life and liveliness; it brings the past, in all its difference, bewilderingly into our present. It fills me with that wild, savage envy, and no novelist could say fairer than that.” – Angela Carter, The Guardian

Winner of the 1998 Booker Prize, 1989 Miles Franklin Award and 1989 N.B.C. Banjo Award