Set onboard an ocean liner travelling to Australia in 1864, this novel is both a love story and an historical tour-de-force that relates the developing romance between Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian, and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. Australian writer Peter Carey is the author of a selection of short stories, ""The Fat Man in History"" and two novels, ""Bliss"" and ""Illywhacker"".
- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Edition: Paperback
- ISBN: 0571153046
- ISBN13: 9780571153046
- Weight: 344g
- Dimensions: 127mm x 197mm
- Category: Books / Fiction / Fiction A - Z
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