Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang: Introduction by Paul Giles

by Peter Carey

Book Overview

Peter Carey's two Booker Prize-winning novels, in one handsome hardcover volume.

Oscar and Lucinda is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century Australia. Oscar, a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine, joins forces with Lucinda, a teenaged heiress who buys a glassworks to help liberate her sex. The resulting narrative tangle of love, commerce, religion, and colonialism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101908203
• ISBN13: 9781101908204
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Length: 952 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.1" x 8.1"