Oscar and Lucinda: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner) (Vintage International) Paperback - 1997
by Carey, Peter
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The Booker Prize-winning novel that catapulted Peter Carey into international literacy celebrity is a romance of the kind that could only take place in 19th-century Australia. And only Carey's fervid imagination could implicate the main characters in a fecund narrative of love and commerce, religion and colonialism, whose climactic episode is a half-mad expedition to transport a glass church across the Outback.
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- Title Oscar and Lucinda: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner) (Vintage International)
- Author Carey, Peter
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Vintage Inte
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-11-11
- Features Movie/TV Tie-In
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR003427249
- ISBN 9780679777502 / 0679777504
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 5.2 x 0.97 in (20.35 x 13.21 x 2.46 cm)
- Reading level 1020
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Clergy - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97006669
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the jacket flap
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.
