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While Oscar learns to gamble as a way of praying, of attempting to discern God`s will, and thus achieves the only moments of peace he knows, Lucinda, early-orphaned daughter of a widowed ...

I’m a fan ofalmost all his books but my favouriteremains Oscar and Lucinda, for which Careywon the Booker Prize in 1988. A grand and ambitious historical novel,set in the late 19th century in ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Review: Oscar and Lucinda, composer Elliott Gyger, librettist Pierce Wilcox, after the novel by Peter Carey, Sydney. Attending the opening night of a world premiere ...

Gillian Armstrong transforms Peter Carey’s Booker Prize-winning “Oscar and Lucinda” into Australian Masterpiece Theater, as this romantic epic moves from the seaside cliffs and tidal pools ...

This month, Sydney Chamber Opera (SCO) premieres its most ambitious new work yet: an adaptation of Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda, composed by Gyger with a libretto (or text) by Pierce Wilcox ...

Oscar’s is a lonely childhood among religious zealots in Devon, where he develops twin passions, God and gambling. The singular Lucinda, reared in Australia b a formidable mother is a “proud ...

Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in ...

Oscar and Lucinda meet on board ship where they discover a mutual love of gambling..... Oscar, poor soul, discovered his addiction some time earlier..... There is something intrinsically moving ...

Eccentric Australian love story about a preacher with a gambling addiction and his love for a beautiful heiress with a mutual love for playing games at high stakes. Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett ...

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, ...