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Oscar and Lucinda (Transaction Large Print Books)
Oscar and Lucinda - Transaction Large Print Books Author:Peter Carey Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes who stars in the epic romance Oscar and Lucinda, masterfully reads Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel. — This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance of the sort that could only take place in 19th-century Australia. For only on that spr... more »awling 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 becomes 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 demented scheme to transport a glass church across the Outback.
The Random House AudioBook includes an excerpt from the original soundtrack by Thomas Newman. Exclusively on Sony Classical.« less