Oscar and Lucinda: movie tie-in editionThe 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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Contents
Confession | |
Reputation | |
Thou Rulest the Raging of the | |
Cape Town to Pinchgut | |
A Business Principle | |
Home | |
Longnose Point | |
The Multitude of Thy Sorceries | |
The Odd | |
Store Up Treasures for a Future | |
Epsom Downs | |
Covetousness | |
Ascension | |
Prince Ruperts Drops | |
Glassworks | |
After Whitsunday | |
A Betting Ticket | |
Une Petite Amie | |
A Game of Cards | |
A Duck to Water | |
Personal Effects | |
Not in Love | |
If He Ask a Fish Will He Give Him a Serpent? | |
Called | |
Leviathan | |
A Bishops soninlaw | |
Hymns | |
In a Trice | |
Babylon | |
Who Can Open the Doors of His Face? | |
The System | |
Pachinko | |
Mr Borrodaile and Mr Smith | |
Montaigne | |
Phosphorescence | |
Phosphorescence | |
Jealousy | |
Lure | |
Bishop Dancers Ferret | |
St Johns | |
The Messiah | |
Serious Damage | |
The Tablecloth | |
The Good Samaritan | |
The Strattons Wager | |
Mrs Smith | |
Judge | |
A Degree from Oxford | |
Heads or Tails | |
Mr Smudge | |
Happiness | |
Ceremony | |
Pot and Kettle | |
The Private Softness of Her Skin | |
Promenade | |
Oscar in Love | |
Orphans | |
The Weeks before Christmas | |
A Prayer | |
Christmas | |
Gratitude | |
A Lecture Based upon a Parable | |
Of the Devil | |
A Reconciliation | |
A Man of Authority | |
The Lord Is My Shepherd | |
Doggerel | |
Mr Smith | |
Arrival of WardleyFish | |
Laudanum | |
An Explorer | |
An Old Blackfellow | |
Glass Cuts | |
Oscar at Bellingen Heads | |
Christian | |
Not Murder? | |
Mary Magdalene | |
Miriam | |
The Aisle of a Cathedral | |
Arrival of Anglican Church at Boat Harbour | |
Oscar and Miriam | |
A Cheque amidst Her Petticoat | |
Songs about Thistles | |
A Song for Oscar | |
Glossary | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Oscar and Lucinda: movie tie-in edition Vintage International |
| Author | Peter Carey |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0307787133, 9780307787132 |
| Length | 448 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Historical / General Fiction / Literary Fiction / Satire |
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