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.
Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/11/1997
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.20w x 0.97d
ISBN13: 9780679777502
ISBN10: 0679777504
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Satire
Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/11/1997
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.20w x 0.97d
ISBN13: 9780679777502
ISBN10: 0679777504
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Satire
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.