Oscar and Lucinda: movie tie-in edition (Vintage International)

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Synopsis
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.

Man Booker Prize winner

Copyright:
1988

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
449 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780307787132
Related ISBNs:
9780679777502
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Peter Carey
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
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