Oscar and Lucinda In mid-1800's England, Oscar (Ralph Fiennes) 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 (Cate Blanchett) is a teenaged Australian heiress who has an almost desperate desire to liberate her sex from the confines of the male-dominated culture of the Australia of that time. She buys a glass factory and has a dream of building a church made almost entirely of glass, and then transporting it to the Australian Outback. Oscar and Lucinda meet on a ship going to Australia; once there, they are for different reasons ostracized from society, and as a result "join forces" together. Oscar and Lucinda are both passionate gamblers, and Lucinda bets Oscar her entire inheritance that he cannot transport the glass church to the Outback safely. Oscar accepts her wager, and this leads to the events that will change both their lives forever. release year: 1997 star(s):Cate Blanchett
Carey beaten to BookerBrisbane Times, AustraliaHe has won the separate Man Booker Prize for Fiction twice for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang . Munro will receive the prize at a ceremony in Dublin on June 25. The 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction will be announced in October.
proof lies in Spanish inquisitionThe Australian, Australia - Bernard LanePeter Carey's novel Oscar and Lucinda is more obviously Quixotic but in Norman Lindsay's tale, Sam Sawnoff and Bill Barnacle show themselves true knight-errants by their stout defence of Albert the put-upon pudding. Don Quixote is the ultimate
New Zealand: Peaceful NorthThe Seoul Times, South KoreaI think of the Peter Carey novel "Oscar and Lucinda." Pete, a retired train driver, is at his 'bach'- a unique kiwi name for a holiday home. "I've always come up here to get rest," he says. "I always feel revitalised for the following week.
Patrick White's cruel visionariesLos Angeles Times, CAJoseph Losey tried to film this story, and Peter Carey himself riffed upon it in his wonderful "Oscar and Lucinda." The impressionistic, painterly quality of White's prose is to the fore in "The Vivisector," a rambling narrative with eye-peeling power,
Fiennes linesThe Age, AustraliaThere was the priest filled with a strange conviction in Oscar and Lucinda; there was Charles van Doren, doomed by his own vanity and craving for admiration in Quiz Show; there was the Hungarian count tormented by passion in The English Patient.
Charlotte Gray DVD FREE in today's The Mail On SundayDaily Mail, UKDirected by Gillian Armstrong, who also made My Brilliant Career and Oscar And Lucinda, the film starts in 1942, when young Scot Charlotte Gray attracts the interest of the Secret Service. She is fluent in French, having spent much of her youth in
Dear Book Doctor,Financial Times, UKJust think of Oscar, the only living son of a fundamentalist Christian in Peter Carey’s wonderful novel Oscar and Lucinda. As our narrator tells us, the whole story turns on the small matter of a Christmas pudding. In December 1856, Oscar tastes his
Jump on the bookmobileChilliwack Times, CanadaAfter pondering the question, I filed the following blurb: "I'll choose Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey, one of my favourites. He won the Booker Prize for this story of unrequited love between an Anglican priest and a glassworks proprietress--both
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