Oscar & Lucinda
Oscar & Lucinda by Peter Carey is a reissue published by Harper & Row in 1989, featuring 433 pages in English. This inventive novel unfolds a unique romance set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Australia, where a nervous Anglican minister and a teenaged heiress embark on an extraordinary journey. Their alliance is sparked by a shared sense of adventure and a desire to challenge societal norms, leading them into a narrative rich with themes of love, commerce, and colonialism.
Readers will discover a story that intricately weaves together the lives of its characters as they navigate the complexities of their world. The novel explores the intersection of faith and chance, culminating in a remarkable expedition to transport a glass church across the Outback. With its historical context and imaginative storytelling, Oscar & Lucinda presents a vivid portrayal of a time and place where misfits find their paths intertwined in unexpected ways.
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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.
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