Oscar and Lucinda
by Peter Carey | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0679777504 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0679777504 Global Overview for this book
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The Booker Prize Winner.
FROM THE BACK COVER: "This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in 19th-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."
FROM THE BACK COVER: "This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in 19th-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."
Journal Entry 2 by pinklady60 at Controlled Release in Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Monday, November 26, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (11/26/2007 UTC) at Controlled Release in Controlled Release, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases
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I saw this on PaigeTurner124's wishlist, and I'm sending it to her as part of a trade.
I saw this on PaigeTurner124's wishlist, and I'm sending it to her as part of a trade.
Received this in the mail today as part of a trade requested by pinklady60. Into Mt. TBR it goes!
