Oscar and Lucinda - True History of the Kelly Gang

Author(s): Peter Carey; Peter Giles (Introduction by)

Fiction

Two novels in one hardback gift volume. Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang by twice Booker winner Peter Carey

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.

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General Fields

  • : 9781841593968
  • : Everyman
  • : UNKNOWN
  • : 0.84
  • : September 2019
  • : 4.6 Centimeters X 13.7 Centimeters X 21 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Peter Carey; Peter Giles (Introduction by)
  • : Hardback
  • : English
  • : 823.914
  • : 936
  • : FV