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They meet on the ship over to Australia, and discover that they are both gamblers, one obsessive, the other compulsive. Lucinda bets Oscar that he cannot transport a glass church from Sydney to a remote settlement at Bellingen , some 400 km up the New South Wales coast.
- Peter Carey
- 1988
On the ship to Australia, Oscar meets Lucinda, a wealthy heiress who had been in London researching the manufacturing process of glass, as she has spontaneously decided to purchase a glassworks with some of her inheritance and is trying to figure out how to run the business.
In the early chapters of OSCAR & LUCINDA, Peter Carey traces the development of two appealing but obsessive personalities who meet each other and their doom in nineteenth century Australia.
We see them formed by their early lives; he studies for the ministry, she inherits a glassworks and becomes obsessed with glass, and they meet during an ocean voyage from England to Australia. Advertisement. They meet, indeed, because they gamble.
On the boat over, he meets Lucinda and hears her confess to gambling, which he denies is a sin. They play cards together until Oscar becomes panicked at the sight of a storm. In New South Wales, Oscar loses his scholarship after he is unable to stop gambling.
Summaries. In mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and his faith and join the Church of England.
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Dec 31, 1997 · Armstrong, working from Laura Jones’ adroit adaptation, succinctly introduces us to Fiennes’ Oscar and the beguiling Cate Blanchett’s Lucinda, who meet on a ship bound from London to Sydney...
