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A Long Way From Home

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571338879
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book A Long Way From Home written by Peter Carey and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary AwardLonglisted for the 2019 Walter Scott Historical Fiction PrizeIrene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together with Willie, their lanky navigator, they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive.A Long Way from Home is Peter Carey's late style masterpiece; a thrilling high speed story that starts in one way, then takes you to another place altogether. Set in the 1950s in the embers of the British Empire, painting a picture of Queen and subject, black, white and those in-between, this brilliantly vivid novel illustrates how the possession of an ancient culture spirals through history - and the love made and hurt caused along the way.

Amnesia

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385352786
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Amnesia written by Peter Carey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-time Booker Prize winner now gives us an exceedingly timely, exhilarating novel—at once dark, suspenseful, and seriously funny—that journeys to the place where the cyber underworld collides with international power politics. When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into Australia’s prison computer system, hundreds of asylum-seekers walk free. And because the Americans run the prisons (let’s be honest: as they do in so many parts of her country) the doors of some five thousand jails in the United States also open. Is this a mistake, or a declaration of cyber war? And does it have anything to do with the largely forgotten Battle of Brisbane between American and Australian forces in 1942? Or with the CIA-influenced coup in Australia in 1975? Felix Moore, known to himself as “our sole remaining left-wing journalist,” is determined to write Gaby’s biography in order to find the answers—to save her, his own career, and, perhaps, his country. But how to get Gaby—on the run, scared, confused, and angry—to cooperate? Bringing together the world of hackers and radicals with the “special relationship” between the United States and Australia, and Australia and the CIA, Amnesia is a novel that speaks powerfully about the often hidden past—but most urgently about the more and more hidden present.

True History of the Kelly Gang

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307368653
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book True History of the Kelly Gang written by Peter Carey and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-10-22 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOONTO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The international bestseller, Booker Prize winner, and winner of the 2001 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. Out of 19th century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations: Ned Kelly, the son of poor Irish immigrants, viewed by the authorities as a thief (especially of horses) and, as a cold-blooded killer. To the people, though, he was a patriot hounded unfairly by rich English landlords and their stooges. In the end, Kelly and his so-called gang (his younger brother and two friends) led a massive police manhunt on a wild goose chase that lasted twenty months, in which Ned’s talents as a bushman were augmented by bank robberies and the support of nearly everyone not in a uniform. His one demand – for which he would have surrendered himself was his jailed mother’s freedom. Executed by hanging more than a century ago, speaking as if from the grave, Kelly still resonates as the most potent legend in the land down under.

Parrot and Olivier in America

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307593010
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Parrot and Olivier in America written by Peter Carey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parrot and Olivier in America has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America. Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville—is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. They are born on different sides of history, but their lives will be connected by an enigmatic one-armed marquis. When Olivier sets sail for the nascent United States—ostensibly to make a study of the penal system, but more precisely to save his neck from one more revolution—Parrot will be there, too: as spy for the marquis, and as protector, foe, and foil for Olivier. As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot and Olivier, between their picaresque adventures apart and together—in love and politics, prisons and finance, homelands and brave new lands—a most unlikely friendship begins to take hold. And with their story, Peter Carey explores the experiment of American democracy with dazzling inventiveness and with all the richness and surprise of characterization, imagery, and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer.

Bliss

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307787222
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Bliss written by Peter Carey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy. And although he is resuscitated, he will never be the same. For, as Peter Carey makes abundantly clear in this darkly funny novel, death is sometimes a necessary prelude to real life. Part The Wizard of Oz, part Dante's Inferno, and part Australian Book of the Dead, Bliss is a triumph of uninhibited storytelling from a writer of extravagan gifts.

Oscar and Lucinda

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571267130
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Oscar and Lucinda written by Peter Carey and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in Victorian times. Made for each other, the two are gamblers - one obsessive, the other compulsive - incapable of winning at the game of love.Oscar and Lucinda is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.

Illywhacker

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307764257
Total Pages : 1001 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Illywhacker written by Peter Carey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery is a walking embodiment of the Australian national character—espcially of its proclivity for tall stories and barefaced lies. As Carey follows this charming scoundrel across a continent and a century, he creates a crazy quilt of outlandish encounters, with characters that include a genteel dowager who fends off madness with an electric belt and a ravishing young girl with a dangerous fondness for rooftop trysts. Boldly inventive, irresistibly odd, Illywhacker is further proof that Peter Carey is one of the most enchanting writers at work in any hemisphere.

Wrong about Japan

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 1740513258
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Wrong about Japan written by Peter Carey and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2004 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2002, the author travelled to Japan, accompanied by his twelve-year-old son Charley, on a special kind of pilgrimage. In a stunning memoir-cum-travelogue he charts this journey, inspired by Charley's passion for manga and anime.

My Life as a Fake

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307368661
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book My Life as a Fake written by Peter Carey and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the triumph of his Booker Prize–winning True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey ventures into the Far East with a novel shot through with mysteries at once historical, literary, and personal. Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry magazine, had grown up knowing the famous and infamous John Slater. And because he figured prominently in the disaster that was her parents’ marriage, when Slater proposes that she accompany him to Malaysia, Sarah embarks out of curiosity on a journey that becomes, instead, a lifelong obsession. Her discoveries spiral outward from Christopher Chubb, a destitute Australian she meets by chance in the steamy, fetid city of Kuala Lumpur. He is mad, Slater warns her, explaining the ruinous hoax Chubb had committed decades earlier. But lurking behind the man’s peculiarity and arrogance, Sarah senses, is artistic genius, in the form of a manuscript he teases her with and which she soon would do anything to acquire. The provenance of this work, she gradually learns, is marked by kidnapping, exile, and death — a relentless saga that reaches from Melbourne to Bali, Sumatra, and Java, and that more than once compels her back to Malaysia without ever disclosing all of its secrets, only the power of the imagination and the price it can exact from those who would wield it. Astonishing, mesmerizing, and ultimately shocking, My Life as a Fake is the most audacious novel yet in Peter Carey’s extraordinary career.

Jack Maggs

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307426440
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Jack Maggs written by Peter Carey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. He has the demeanor of a savage and the skills of a hardened criminal, and he is risking his life on seeking vengeance and reconciliation. Installing himself within the household of the genteel grocer Percy Buckle, Maggs soon attracts the attention of a cross section of London society. Saucy Mercy Larkin wants him for a mate. The writer Tobias Oates wants to possess his soul through hypnosis. But Maggs is obsessed with a plan of his own. And as all the various schemes converge, Maggs rises into the center, a dark looming figure, at once frightening, mysterious, and compelling. Not since Caleb Carr's The Alienist have the shadowy city streets of the nineteenth century lit up with such mystery and romance.

30 Days in Sydney

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608192385
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book 30 Days in Sydney written by Peter Carey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character with the help of his old friends, drawing the reader into a wild and wonderful journey of discovery and rediscovery as bracing as the southerly buster that sometimes batters Sydney's shores. Famous sights such as Bondi Beach, the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and the Blue Mountains all take on a strange new intensity when exposed to the penetrating gaze of the author and his friends.

His Illegal Self

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571267122
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book His Illegal Self written by Peter Carey and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Havard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. He yearns to see or hear news of his famous outlaw parents, but his grandmother refuses to tell him anything. When a woman named Dial comes to collect Che, it seems his wish has come true: his mother has come back for him. But soon, they too are on the run, and Che is thrown into a world where nothing is what it seems.

The Chemistry of Tears

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 174253452X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The Chemistry of Tears written by Peter Carey and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her lover dies suddenly, all Catherine has left is her work. In an act of compassion her manager at London’s Swinburne Museum gives her a very particular project: a box of intricate clockwork parts that constitute a nineteenth-century automaton, a beautiful mechanical bird. It’s an object made of equal parts magic, love, madness and science, a delight that contains the seeds of our age’s downfall. Once Catherine discovers the diary of the man who commissioned it, one obsession merges into another.

The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 1743484356
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith written by Peter Carey and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Severely afflicted, doomed never to be taller than three foot six, Tristan Smith faces death and danger from the first moment of his energetic and ambitious life. Here, for the first time, is the truth about him, from his birth in the Republic of Efica in the year 371 to the present day. When he goes on trial for multiple offences in Voorstand, a nation of rampaging global dominance, Tristan must plead his case to the very culture that has done for his own. Peter Carey’s piercing allegory of imperialism is unmatched for originality and inventiveness.

Destiny

Author : P. B. R. Carey
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783034309264
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Destiny written by P. B. R. Carey and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a vivid biography of Indonesia's foremost national hero, of the story of a remarkable figure whose life spanned Indonesia's troubled transition to the modern world. It will profitably be read by all those with an interest in the impact of European imperialism on non-European societies, East-West dialogue, and the making of modern Indonesia.

Peter Carey

Author : Bruce Woodcock
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719067983
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Peter Carey written by Bruce Woodcock and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Carey is one of the most respected novelists writing today. Since the original edition of this book, Carey's fiction has reached a far wider international audience: he has won the Booker Prize for the second time with True History of the Kelly Gang, while Oscar and Lucinda has been made into a successful feature film. Bruce Woodcock's revised and expanded critical study now includes detailed readings of the recent novels, Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang, seeing them as the finest productions of a writer who continues to surprise and delight his readers with inventive creations and unique imagination.

A Letter to Our Son

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : University of Queensland Press(Australia)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Letter to Our Son written by Peter Carey and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 1994 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: