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Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Oscar Hopkins, the hydrophobic, noisy-kneed son of a preacher, renounces his father's stern religion in favour of the Anglican Church. Lucinda Leplastrier, a frizzy-haired heiress, impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. When the two finally mee ...Show more
Oscar and Lucinda: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1989 by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Booker winning novel from one of Australia's most exciting writers. Oscar and Lucinda imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions became dangerous habits. It is also a startling and unusual love story. Oscar is a young English clergyman who has broken with his past and developed a distur ...Show more
Oscar and Lucinda: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1989 by Carey, Peter
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Oscar and Lucinda: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1989 by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning Oscar and Lucinda, with a cover by Michael LeunigOscar Hopkins, the hydrophobic, noisy-kneed son of a preacher, renounces his father's stern religion in favour of the Anglican Church. Lucinda Leplastrier, a frizzy-haired heiress, impulsivel ...Show more
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
$49.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Adult
Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in re ...Show more
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in re ...Show more
Parrot and Olivier in America (PB) by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When the young French aristocrat Olivier is sent to the New World, apparently to study its prisons but in reality to avoid another revolution, Parrot is sent with him. The son of an English printer, Parrot wanted to be an artist but has ended up as a servant. They make an unlikely pair - but as their ad ...Show more
Plainsong: Picador Classic by Kent Haruf; Peter Carey (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Plainsong Ser.
With an introduction by Peter CareyI suppose it is crazy. I don't know. I don't even care. But that girl needs somebody . . . And you old solitary bastards need somebody too. Somebody or something besides an old red cow to care about and worry over.Set in Kent Haruf's fictional landscape of Holt County, ...Show more
The Big Bazoohley by Peter Carey
$14.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
Wearing his 'Sonic the Hedgehog' pyjamas, Sam Kellow sleepwalks out of the hotel room in Toronto where he is staying with his parents . . . and wakes to find the door locked behind him. Exploring the hotel hallway, Sam meets Nasty Muriel, Droopy George and their chickenpox-covered son, Wilfred, who kidn ...Show more
The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The Chemistry of Tears is both wildly entertaining and deeply moving, a portrait of love and loss that is simultaneously delicate and anarchic. At its heart is an image only the masterful Peter Carey could breath such life into - an object made of equal parts magic, art and science, a delight that conta ...Show more
The Tax Inspector by Carey Peter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky's Karamozovs. Granny Catchprice runs her family business, and her family, with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives. Sixteen-year-old Benny dreams of transforming a failing automobile franchise into an empir ...Show more
The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
From Granny Catchprice, who runs her family business - and her family - with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives to sixteen-year-old Benny, who dreams of transforming a failing automobile franchise into an empire - and himself into an angel - the Catchprices may be the most spectacularly ...Show more