Search results
Plot introduction. The book tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, an Anglican priest from Devon and son of a Plymouth Brethren minister, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a young Australian heiress who buys a glass factory. They meet on the ship over to Australia, and discover that they are both gamblers, one obsessive, the other compulsive.
- Peter Carey
- 528 pp
- 1988
- 1988
Oscar and Lucinda. (film) Oscar and Lucinda is a 1997 romantic drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, Ciarán Hinds and Tom Wilkinson. It is based on the 1988 Booker Prize -winning novel Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey. [3] In March 1998, the film was nominated at the 70th Academy Awards for the ...
- $4,953,510
- Thomas Newman
- 31 December 1997
Plot Summary. Oscar And Lucinda is a satirical novel by Australian author Peter Carey. The book was first published in 1988 and went on to win the Man Booker Prize that same year, and was the recipient of the Miles Franklin Award in 1989. The novel tells the story of the meeting of Englishman Oscar Hopkins and Australian heiress Lucinda ...
Analysis. 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 ...
People also ask
How did Lucinda and Oscar meet?
Who directed Oscar and Lucinda?
What is the relationship between Lucinda and Oscar?
Is Oscar and Lucinda based on a true story?
Dec 31, 1997 · Oscar and Lucinda: Directed by Gillian Armstrong. With Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson. In mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel.
- (7.1K)
- Drama, Romance
- Gillian Armstrong
- 1997-12-31
Jan 23, 1998 · "In order that I exist," the narrator of "Oscar and Lucinda" tells us, "two gamblers, one obsessive, one compulsive, must declare themselves." The gamblers are his grandparents, two 19th century eccentrics, driven by faith and temptation, who find they are freed to practice the first by indulging in the second. Their lives form a love story of enchantment and wicked wit. When we say two people ...
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. Lucinda is a teen-aged Australian heiress who has an almost desperate desire ...
