Oscar and Lucinda: True History of the Kelly Gang
Book formats
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Hardcover No offers
Book short specifications
- Author
- Peter Carey, Peter Giles
- Pages
- 936
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Language
- english
- Release date
- September 5, 2019
- ISBN
- 9781841593968
- GTIN
- 9781841593968
- Weight, g
- 843
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
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.