Oscar & Lucinda

Paperback, 448 pages

English language

Published Oct. 28, 1997 by Vintage Books.

ISBN:
978-0-679-77750-2
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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.

14 editions

Subjects

  • Glass manufacture -- Fiction
  • Gamblers -- Fiction
  • Young women -- Fiction
  • Clergy -- Fiction
  • Australia -- Fiction