Oscar and Lucinda

Peter Carey · 1988 CE · Novel · Australian · Contemporary

An Anglican clergyman who takes gambling for a form of prayer meets an heiress who has bought a Sydney glassworks with her inheritance; both are compulsive. They stake everything on hauling a church of glass and iron up the rivers of New South Wales. Faith and chance fused.

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