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Peter Carey

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Peter Carey 1943-, Australian novelist, b. near Melbourne. Carey's combination of science fiction and fantasy motifs with a realistic style, displayed in such short-story volumes as The Fat Man in History (1974), War Crimes (1979), and Collected Stories (1995), has invited comparison with such modern masters as Borges and Grass . In longer works of fiction, such as Bliss (1981, his first novel), Illywhacker (1985), and other books, Carey confronts the realities and myths of Australian history and society. Two later novels of Australia, the Victorian-style Oscar and Lucinda ... Read more
Peter Carey
Encyclopedia of World Biography Peter Carey Australian writer Peter Carey (born 1943) won over twelve awards and received two major award...style is now emulated by many other authors. Australian writer Peter Carey, born in the small town of Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, in 1943, has... Read more
Carey, Peter (Philip)
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Carey, Peter (Philip) (1943– ), Australian...Melbourne and London, moving to Sydney in 1974. Carey's is an idiosyncratic voice, his fiction...historic bush-ranger, Ned Kelly, which won Carey the Booker Prize for the second time. Read more

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Peter Carey's Ned Kelly
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 12/27/2000; 700+ words ; New Straits Times 12-27-2000 Peter Carey's Ned Kelly Edition: The City Advertiser...Book review AUSTRALIAN-BORN writer Peter Carey has lived in New York City for...rainy day. Cut to 30 years later. Peter Carey is now an established writer and... Read more
A Sunday drive in the country with Peter Carey
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 11/6/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Sunday drive in the country with Peter Carey Byline: Rehman Rashid Edition...novelist and Booker Prize winner Peter Carey. As people, writers can be boorish...Australian High Commission that Peter Carey was visiting Malaysia and wanted... Read more
Peter Carey. His Illegal Self.(Book review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 9/1/2008; ; 468 words ; Peter Carey. His Illegal Self. New York. Knopf. 2008...978-0-307-26372-8 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Peter Carey has entered the ranks of authors whose...a surprisingly satisfying answer. Yes, Peter Carey can do it all, and in His Illegal Self... Read more
Dallas-on-Sea down under A city full of danger and with a guilty past? John Adamson does not recognise the novelist Peter Carey's Sydney
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 7/29/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account by Peter Carey Bloomsbury, pounds 9.99, 248 pp...some corrective astringency from Peter Carey's new memoir of the city. The Booker...author of Oscar and Lucinda in 1988, Carey is a shrewd observer of Antipodean... Read more
Peter Carey. Theft: A Love Story.(Book review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 3/1/2007; ; 541 words ; Peter Carey. Theft: A Love Story. New York. Knopf...ISBN 0-307-26371-1 LATELY, I open a new Peter Carey novel with the same anticipation I used...seemed particularly appropriate to Theft, Carey's latest, because it reminded me almost... Read more
Fed: Peter Carey's Booker win good news for Australia
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 10/18/2001; 435 words ; ...Australia) 10-18-2001 Fed: Peter Carey's Booker win good news...AAP - Australian author Peter Carey today became only the...belief that irrespective of Peter's giant talent, there...this," Keneally said. Carey, 58, had been favourite... Read more
Peter Carey: the two-time Booker Prize-winning author tells the story of a child of 60s radicals who have gone underground.
Magazine article from: Bookmarks; 5/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; In Peter Carey's latest novel, His Illegal Self, a young...We are still inventing our country, says Carey about his native Australia, once under British...Far more than a chronicler of Australia, Carey is an unusually versatile writer whose influences... Read more
Peter Carey. 30 Days in Sydney.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction; 6/22/2002; ; 297 words ; Peter Carey. 30 Days in Sydney. Bloomsbury, 2001. 248...to hosting the Olympic games, novelist Peter Carey returned to the city he had left for New York some ten years before. Carey wrote about his month-long experience for... Read more
PETER CAREY: IN EXILE FROM HIS OWN LIFE INTERVIEW ADRIFT FROM HIS HOME COUNTRY, MOURNING HIS LOST CHILDREN, STILL SMARTING FROM A PUBLIC SPAT WITH HIS EX-WIFE, PETER CAREY IS THE ARCHETYPAL OUTSIDER
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 2/17/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...brilliant, very Australian novelist Peter Carey, chosen to live in New York City...As it happens, I first interviewed Carey in August 1991 on the publication...Lawrence, that no man had ever loved. Carey was then 48, a wiry, geekish, urgent... Read more
Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Australian Studies; 12/15/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...figures of Australian culture, and Peter Carey is one of Australia's greatest writers. It seems only fitting, then, that Carey should turn to the legendary story...Kelly. Happily, as it turns out, Carey's fictional account of the Kelly... Read more

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