Author(s): Peter Carey

SECONDHAND BOOKS | Australian Fiction

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.

1988. First edition. A very good copy only marked by very light rubbing on the heel of the spine and the usual tanning of the pages. The d/w is near fine with only a hint of sun fading of the spine. Now in a protective cover.