![]() ![]() Lucinda is by now a lonely heiress and Oscar an Anglican priest. Oscar starts betting on horse races while at school, while Lucinda becomes a card player. This might explain why both become gamblers. Lucinda Leplastrier, who receives a doll as a present and then accidentally destroys it while trying to improve its hair, is punished by her mother for deed. His father catches him eating the fruit of Satan and hits him, so Oscar defects to the Anglicans, specifically to Oscar’s father’s rival the Reverend Hugh Stratton. One Christmas Day, when Oscar is fourteen, the new servant, who was an Anglican, serves Oscar Christmas pudding – the flesh of which idols eat, in the view of his father. We start with Oscar Hopkins, in England, son of a Plymouth Brethren minister. The image that stays in my mind from this book is the glass church on the boat going up the river but I am jumping the gun a bit. ![]() Home » Australia » Peter Carey » Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda ![]()
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