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Oscar and Lucinda

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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.

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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: August 17, 2011

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780307787132
  • Release date: August 17, 2011

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780307787132
  • File size: 2318 KB
  • Release date: August 17, 2011

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Languages

English

Levels

Lexile® Measure:1020
Text Difficulty:6-8

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.

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