Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda
First edition (Australia)
AuthorPeter Carey
Cover artistPierre Le-Tan
LanguageEnglish
Genrenovel
Set inEngland and New South Wales, 1838–1866 and 1970
PublisherUniversity of Queensland Press (UQP)
Publication date
1988
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint (Hardback, Paperback)
Pages528 pp
ISBN0-7022-2116-3
OCLC21002433
823.914
LC ClassMLCM 91/08820 (P) PR9619.3.C36
Preceded byIllywhacker 
Followed byThe Tax Inspector 

Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Australian author Peter Carey. It won the 1988 Booker Prize the year it was released, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award.[1] It was shortlisted in 2008 for The Best of the Booker, in celebration of the prize's 40th anniversary.[2][3]

Plot introduction

The book tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, an Anglican priest from Devon, England, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a young Australian heiress, who are both traveling to Australia by ship. It explores their adventures on the large continent.

They meet on a ship to Australia, where Lucinda has bought a glass factory, having long been fascinated by the material. Oscar had grown up as the son of a fundamentalist Brethren of Plymouth minister and naturalist. He has used his observation of nature as a sign from God for something less severe, and believes he has joined a more compassionate church with the Anglicans.

The travelers discover that they are both gamblers, one obsessive, the other compulsive. Lucinda bets Oscar that he cannot transport a glass church (which will be built by her factory in Sydney) from there to a remote settlement at Bellingen, some 400 km up the New South Wales coast. This bet changes both their lives forever.

Inspiration

A reviewer for The Guardian commented that the novel was influenced by Father and Son, the autobiography of the English poet Edmund Gosse. The poet described his relation with his father, naturalist and minister Philip Henry Gosse.[4]

Carey also noted in his novel some material that he took directly from a book of natural history by the senior Gosse. He concentrates on visual descriptions and information, with glass as a major image and metaphor.[4][5]

Adaptation

Main article: Oscar and Lucinda (film)

The novel was adapted years later for a film of the same name, released in 1997. It was directed by Gillian Armstrong and starred Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, and Tom Wilkinson.

References

  1. ^ Strongman, Luke (22 May 2002). "The Booker Prize and the Legacy of Empire". Rodopi – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Hassall, Anthony J. (22 May 1998). "Dancing on Hot Macadam: Peter Carey's Fiction". Univ. of Queensland Press – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (10 March 2010). "Peter Carey: A Literary Companion". McFarland – via Google Books.
  4. ^ a b Mullan, John (13 February 2010). "Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey | Bookclub". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
  5. ^ Meinig, Sigrun (22 May 2004). "Witnessing the Past: History and Post-colonialism in Australian Historical Novels". Gunter Narr Verlag – via Google Books.

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