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Oscar and Lucinda

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Oscar and Lucinda
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  • Category: Fiction - Literary
  • Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
  • On Sale: November 11, 1997
  • Price: $15.95
  • ISBN: 978-0-679-77750-2 (0-679-77750-4)
Oscar and Lucinda
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679777502
Our Price: $15.95
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ABOUT THIS BOOK

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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