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Oscar and Lucinda

Oscar and Lucinda

by Peter Carey

1,170

Total Points

#403

3.5 (2 reviews)
Pages
515
Award(s)
Man Booker Prize (1988)

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...

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forline

Dec 12th, 2017

Interesting...haven't finished figuring out what I think about the ending. A tall tale: silly in parts, epic in parts, too long in parts but nearly entirely irresistible.

bryanoz

Jun 9th, 2015