num_pages: 433
description: 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.
language: English
title: Oscar and Lucinda
titlecomplete: Oscar and Lucinda
characters: Reverend Dennis Hasset, Lucinda Leplastrier, Oscar Hopkins, Hugh Stratton
genres: Australia, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Classics, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 20923
places: England, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Miles Franklin Literary Award, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: National Book Council Banjo Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Colin Roderick Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: The Best of the Booker
publisher: Vintage