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La Gaja scienza - 294: Oscar e Lucinda

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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

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1990
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Titul
La Gaja scienza - 294: Oscar e Lucinda
Jazyk
taliansky
Vydavateľ
Longanesi
Rok vydania
1990
Väzba
pevná
Počet strán
567
ISBN10
8830409294
ISBN13
9788830409293
Série
Prvé vydanie
1988
Pôvodný názov
Oscar and Lucinda
Hodnotenie
3,6 z 5
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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.