| Titre : |
Oscar and Lucinda |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Peter Carey, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Random House |
| Année de publication : |
1997 |
| Importance : |
433 p. |
| Format : |
20 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-679-77750-2 |
| Prix : |
13 UDS |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Tags : |
romance australia nineteenth-century |
| Résumé : |
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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