Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey
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appears in About Australia.
Peter Carey's two Booker Prizewinning novels, in one handsome hardcover volume.Oscar and Lucinda is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenthcentury 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...
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appears in About Australia.
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