Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey • Faber & Faber • ISBN not provided
Oscar and Lucinda
ISBN not provided · 1988
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Set against the backdrop of 19th-century colonial Australia, Peter Carey’s Booker Prize-winning novel follows the unlikely connection between an Anglican priest with a penchant for gambling and a defiant heiress. Their shared obsession with a daring glass church project serves as a central metaphor for faith, risk, and the fragility of human ambition in a rapidly expanding frontier society.
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