Overview
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.
- | Author: Peter Carey
- | Publisher: Vintage
- | Publication Date: Nov 11, 1997
- | Number of Pages: 448 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0679777504
- | ISBN-13: 9780679777502
