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Oscar and Lucinda: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner)

Oscar and Lucinda: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner)

Carey, Peter

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Series: Vintage International

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ISBN10: 0679777504
ISBN13: 9780679777502
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Nov 11 1997
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.97 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.01
Language: English
Awards: Man Booker Prize
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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