Narrated by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones, and his ‘damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother’ Hugh, Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey’s extraordinary flair for language. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via...
Lucinda, the main lady character, in this novel knows just what to do with her inheritance. She wants to study glass. It takes place in Australia. There is also a love interest named Oscar. It’s a good novel. If...
To the authorities in pursuit of him, outlaw Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow ordinary Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey brings...
Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a...
Subtitled “a wildly distorted account” it is pretty much that: an oblique, poignant, entertaining and rather candid look at the city. Using his prize-winning novelist’s eye for telling detail, and the objectivity of the relative outsider (Carey has spent...
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