Oscar & Lucinda / Peter Carey.
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TextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 1997.Edition: 1st Vintage International edDescription: 433 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0679777504 (pbk.)
- 9780679777502 (pbk.)
- Oscar and Lucinda
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Main Library | Fiction | Carey Peter | Available | 33111007036789 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlightnbsp;nbsp;Pictures.
This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place innbsp;nbsp;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.
Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1988.
A rebellious Anglican priest and a teenaged heiress who buys a glass factory in Australia pursue an unlikely romance.