| Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang: Introduction by Paul Giles Contributor(s): Carey, Peter (Author), Giles, Paul (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1101908203 ISBN-13: 9781101908204 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $25.20 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Crime |
| Dewey: 823.914 |
| LCCN: 2019017675 |
| Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.8" H x 5.1" W x 8.1" (1.85 lbs) 952 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Peter Carey's two Booker Prize-winning novels, in one handsome hardcover volume. Oscar and Lucinda is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century Australia. Oscar, a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine, joins forces with Lucinda, a teenaged heiress who buys a glassworks to help liberate her sex. The resulting narrative tangle of love, commerce, religion, and colonialism culminates in a half-mad expedition to transport a glass church across the Outback. In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Australian outlaw Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, but to his own people he is a hero defying the authority of the English. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey brings the famous bushranger wildly and passionately to life. |