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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
- 1988
Oscar and Lucinda is a 1997 romantic drama film directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Cate Blanchett, Ralph Fiennes, Ciarán Hinds and Tom Wilkinson. The screenpla by Laura Jones is based on the 1988 Booker Prize-winning novel Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey. [3]
Jan 1, 2001 · As the title states, this is the story of two people – Oscar Hopkins and Lucinda Leplastrier, originally from England. Oscar, son of a clergyman, breaks from the strict religion of his father and becomes an Anglican preacher.
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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.
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- Drama, Romance
- Gillian Armstrong
- 1997-12-31
Is 'Oscar and Lucinda' based on a true story? No, 'Oscar and Lucinda' is a work of fiction, although it incorporates historical events and settings. Books like Oscar and Lucinda
Jan 23, 1998 · “Oscar and Lucinda” is based on a novel by Peter Carey, a chronicler of Australian eccentricity; it won the 1988 Booker Prize, Britain’s highest literary award. Reading it, I was swept up by the humor of the situation, and by the passion of the two gamblers.
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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.
