Book summary of Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
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.
Details of e-book Oscar and Lucinda
- Author(s): Peter Carey
- Title: Oscar and Lucinda
- Rating: 3.8 out of 5 base on 267 reviews
- Publisher: Vintage; Media tie-in edition (November 11, 1997)
- ISBN-10: 0679777504
- ISBN-13: 9780679777502
- Language: English
- Print length: 433 pages
- Categories: Humor & Entertainment
