Oscar and Lucinda: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner)

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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Peter Carey
Published: 11/11/1997
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780679777502
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 0.97″ H x 8.01″ L x 5.20″ W

Award: 1988 Man Booker Prize Winner – Novel

About the Author
Peter Carey was born in 1943 in Bacchus Marsh, Australia, and was educated at Geelong Grammar School. He is the author of a collection of stories and five novels. He lives in New York City and teaches at New York University.