Oscar and Lucinda
A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner)
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3.8 • 60 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher 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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
``If Illywhacker astounded us with its imaginative richness, this latest Carey novel does so again, with a masterly sureness of touch added. It's a story, in a sense the story, of mid-19th century England and Australia, narrated by a man of our time, and therefore permeated with modern consciousness,'' stated PW. The novel won the Booker Prize.
Customer Reviews
It won the Booker
But how? It’s well written. It has interesting colorful characters. It goes places. But it’s long, slow, and when it’s over it brings very little satisfaction, almost a feeling of - Even though I liked the two main characters, why did I read that?