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.