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Oscar and Lucinda is a novel by Australian author Peter Carey which won the 1988 Booker Prize and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award. It was shortlisted for The Best of the Booker.
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]
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.
Jan 1, 2001 · It is on this voyage that Oscar meets Lucinda Leplastrier, returning to Australia, whose parents had died & whose mother, before dying, had their land subdivided and sold and Lucinda was now an heiress living off the profits.
Set primarily in 1900s Australia, Oscar (Ralph Fiennes) and Lucinda (Cate Blanchett) meet aboard a ship bound for Sydney, drawn to each other by their eccentricities and their...
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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.
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.
