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Paperback. Pub Date :2004-08-05 Pages: 368 Language: English Publisher: Faber and Faber Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels. which have included such masterworks as Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories and this volume collects together all the stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes as well as three other stories not previously published in book form. The stories. persuasive and precisely crafted. reveal Carey to be a moralist with a sense of humour. a surrealist interested in naturalism and an urban poet delighting in paradox.A volume containing the stories in The Fat Man in History and War Crimes. together with three other stories not previously published in book form. The author won the 1988 Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda.
Paperback. Pub Date :2004-08-05 Pages: 368 Language: English Publisher: Faber and Faber Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels. which have included such masterworks as Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories and this volume collects together all the stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes as well as three other stories not previously published in book form. The stories. persuasive and precisely crafted. reveal Carey to be a moralist with a sense of humour. a surrealist interested in naturalism and an urban poet delighting in paradox.A volume containing the stories in The Fat Man in History and War Crimes. together with three other stories not previously published in book form. The author won the 1988 Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda.
Peter Carey
Peter Carey was born in Australia in 1943. He was educated at the local state school until the age of eleven and then became a boarder at Geelong Grammar School. He was a student there between 1954...
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