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Oscar and Lucinda

by Peter Carey

Available editions of Oscar and Lucinda

	9780679460985, Audio Cassette, Random House, 1997 None currently available
	9780060159085, Hardcover, Harpercollins, 1988 $1.00 (Very Good ) Other copies of 9780060159085
	9780060915926, Paperback, Harpercollins, 1995 $1.00 () Other copies of 9780060915926
	9781850893189, Hardcover, Ulverscroft Large Print Books, 1989 $2.99 (Used - Acceptable) Other copies of 9781850893189
	9780702221163, Book, University of Queensland Press, 1988 AUD $12.00 () Other copies of 9780702221163
	9780679777502, Paperback, Vintage Books, 1997 $1.00 (Used - Good) Other copies of 9780679777502

Publisher Notes

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.

Media Reviews

"OSCAR AND LUCINDA is a novel of extraordinary richness, complexity and strength - it is a peopled world, humming, buzzing, dancing with life and liveliness; it brings the past, in all its difference, bewilderingly into our present. It fills me with wild, savage envy, and no novelist could say fairer than that."

First Line

If there was a bishop, my mother would have him to tea.

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