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The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a significant film from Monk Searchlight  Pictures.This significant, irrepressibly inventive novel, is just a romance, but a romance of the type that may only occur in  nineteenth-century Australia. For just on that vast region--a haven for misfits of both human and animal kingdoms--might a worried Anglican minister who gambles on the directions of the Divine become allied with a teen-aged heiress who buys a glassworks to simply help liberate her gender. And just the imagination of Peter Carey might implicate Oscar and Lucinda in a story of love and commerce, religion and colonialism, that culminates in a half-mad expedition to move a glass church over the Outback.