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Carey luxuriates in language . . . . [Oscar & Lucinda is] a brilliant success.” —San Francisco Chronicle “It is Thomas Wolfe one is reminded of most when reading Peter Carey . . . they share that magnificent vitality, that ebullient delight in character, detail and language that turns a novel into an important book.”
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 sex. The resulting narrative tangle of love, commerce, religion, and colonialism culminates in a half-mad expedition to transport a glass church across the Outback.
Lucinda Leplastrier é uma rica herdeira australiana que compra em Londres materiais para sua fábrica de vidro recém-adquirida em seu país. Decidido a viajar para a Austrália como um missionário, Oscar conhece Lucinda a bordo do navio e uma obsessão mútua floresce. Eles fazem uma aposta que vai alterar cada um de seus destinos.
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7 de dez. de 1997 · "Oscar and Lucinda" is a truly poetic movie whose physical production is just as impressive as its spiritual aspirations. This Victorian-era romance revolves around two eccentric soulmates ...
On an Australian farm, Lucinda Leplastrier was tutored by her intelligent mother, a woman who took part in the early feminist movement. Oscar's lonely boyhood in rural England was under the watchful eye of his preacher father. At Oxford to train as a minister, the adult Oscar (Ralph Fiennes) feels he doesn't fit in and develops a passion for gambling, giving his winnings away to the poor ...
In mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and his faith and join the Church of England. Lucinda is a teen-aged Australian heiress who has an almost desperate desire ...
31 de dez. de 1997 · Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies. Gillian Armstrong. Director.
