Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang

Carey, Peter, Giles, Paul
Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang

Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang

Carey, Peter, Giles, Paul

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Peter Carey's two Booker Prize-winning novels, in one handsome hardcover volume.

Oscar and Lucinda is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century Australia. Oscar, a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine, joins forces with Lucinda, a teenaged heiress who buys a glassworks to help liberate her sex. The resulting narrative tangle of love, commerce, religion, and colonialism culminates in a half-mad expedition to transport a glass church across the Outback. In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Australian outlaw Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, but to his own people he is a hero defying the authority of the English. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey brings the famous bushranger wildly and passionately to life.

Author:   Carey, Peter, Giles, Paul
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
ISBN:  

9781101908204


Pages:   952
Publication Date:   03 September 2019
Bind Format:   Hardback
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Peter Carey's two Booker Prize-winning novels, in one handsome hardcover volume.

Oscar and Lucinda is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century Australia. Oscar, a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions of the Divine, joins forces with Lucinda, a teenaged heiress who buys a glassworks to help liberate her sex. The resulting narrative tangle of love, commerce, religion, and colonialism culminates in a half-mad expedition to transport a glass church across the Outback. In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Australian outlaw Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a monstrous criminal, but to his own people he is a hero defying the authority of the English. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey brings the famous bushranger wildly and passionately to life.

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Author:   Carey, Peter, Giles, Paul
Publisher:   Random House USA Inc
ISBN:  

9781101908204


Pages:   952
Publication Date:   03 September 2019
Bind Format:   Hardback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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