| Oscar and Lucinda: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner) Contributor(s): Carey, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679777504 ISBN-13: 9780679777502 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1997 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Satire |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 97006669 |
| Lexile Measure: 1020 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 5.2" W x 8.01" (0.77 lbs) 448 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |