by Peter Carey · Faber Faber Inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571192922
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«Oscar and Lucinda» is the historical novel by Peter Carey, published by Faber Faber Inc in paperback (528 pages, in English).
In 1864, Oscar Hopkins, an English seminarian addicted to gambling, and Lucinda Leplastrier, an Australian heiress fascinated by glass, meet on a ship bound for Australia. Oscar and Lucinda become involved in the project of moving a glass church across the interior of the country; a story of love, religion and colonialism.
The novel won the Booker Prize in 1988 and was adapted into a movie with Ralph Fiennes. This paperback edition is from 1997.
For those seeking historical and literary fiction with eccentric characters and a setting in colonial Australia.
Peter Philip Carey is an Australian novelist who has lived in New York City for more than three decades.
