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Historical Fiction · EpicTwo compulsive gamblers plan to ship a glass church across the Australian wilderness
Oscar and Lucinda
by Peter Carey
1988528 pagesModerate readSteady pace
★ Booker Prize, 1988
Two gamblers and a glass church
Oscar Hopkins is an Anglican clergyman and Lucinda Leplastrier is an Australian heiress who owns a glassworks. Both are compulsive gamblers, and they stake everything on transporting a glass church through the Australian interior. It won the 1988 Booker Prize and was adapted as a 1997 film.
More about this book
Who
Oscar Hopkins and Lucinda Leplastrier.
World
England and nineteenth-century Australia.
What makes it different
It is the first of Carey's two Booker winners.
Feel
Quirky and moving.
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Further reading
- Oscar and LucindaWikipedia