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Oscar and Lucinda

By Peter Carey

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
1997
ISBN
0679777504
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
439 kB (449050 bytes)
Edition
1st Vintage International ed
Pages
\0
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight  Pictures.This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in  nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent--a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms--could a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine become allied with a teenaged heiress who buys a glassworks to help liberate her sex. And only the prodigious imagination of Peter Carey could implicate Oscar and Lucinda in a narrative of love and commerce, religion and colonialism, that culminates in a half-mad expedition to transport a glass church across the Outback.

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