Oscar and Lucinda
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Fiction/Literature/978-0-307-27648-3
TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG
To his pursuers, Ned Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, a thief, and a murderer. To his own people, the lowly class of ordinary Australians, the bushranger is a hero, defying the authority of the English to direct their lives. Indentured by his bootlegger mother to a famous horse thief, Ned saw his first prison cell at fifteen and by the age of twenty-six had become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria. Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist.
Fiction/Literature/978-0-375-72467-1
WRONG ABOUT JAPAN
When Peter Carey offered to take his son to Japan, twelve-year-old Charley stipulated no temples or museums. He wanted to see manga, anime, and cool, weird stuff. His father said yes. Out of that bargain comes this enchanting tour of the mansion of Japanese culture, as entered through its garish, brightly lit back door. Funny, surprising, distinguished by its wonderfully nuanced portrait of a father and son thousands of miles from home, Wrong About Japan is a delight.
Travel/978-1-4000-7836-3
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Copyright © 1988 by Peter Carey
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., New York, in 1988.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Carey, Peter.
Oscar & Lucinda / Peter Carey.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-78713-2
1. Frontier and pioneer life—Australia—Fiction.
2. Christian life—Australia—Fiction. I. Title.
PR9619.3.C36073 1997
823—dc21 97-6669
Author photograph © Craig Voevodin
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