- Fiction, Glass manufacture, Clergy, Young women
A rebellious Anglican priest and a teenaged heiress who buys a glass factory in Australia pursue an unlikely romance.
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Classical in form, prestige and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Peter Carey
- First published
- April 5, 1999
- Pages
- 515
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, Incorporated, faber and faber, Everyman
- Editions
- 40
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9788420425726
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Peter Philip Carey (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988, for *Oscar and Lucinda,* and won his second Booker Prize in 2001, for *True History of the Kelly Gang.* He has also won the Miles Franklin Award three times. In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and was, for nineteen years, executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York.
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