# Oscar and Lucinda

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- Book: [Oscar and Lucinda](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-carey/oscar-and-lucinda) ([Oscar and Lucinda.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-carey/oscar-and-lucinda.md))
- Authors: [Peter Carey](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-carey)
- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-4159-396-8
- Pages: 936
- Published: 2019-09-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

OSCAR AND LUCINDA is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century England and Australia where the two potential lovers lead parallel lives until chance brings them together on board ship. A narrative tangle of love, religion, gambling, commerce and colonialism culminates in a nightmare expedition – the result of a wager – to transport a glass church across the Australian wilderness. In TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG the legendary Australian outlaw Ned Kelly speaks for himself in a voice that is direct, colloquial, theatrical, and utterly magical. To his pursuers he is nothing but a monstrous criminal, but to his own people he is a hero, defying British imperial authority in support of the poor Irish settlers who are its victims. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Carey brings the famous bushranger unforgettably to life.