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Amnesia

Peter Carey
Amnesia Book PDF

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345814906

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From the two-time Booker Prize winner: a masterful, exceedingly timely new novel--at once dark, suspenseful and seriously funny--that takes us on a journey to the place where the cyber underworld of radicals and hackers collides with international power politics. When an internet virus throws open the gates at thousands of American prisons, the hacker turns out to be an unlikely young Australian woman. Has she declared cyber war on the United States or was her "Angel Worm" intended only to free the victims of Australia's immigration policies? Is she innocent? Can she be saved? The answers are up to journalist Felix Moore, a.k.a. Felix Moore-or-less-correct. His career is tanking when he gets this chance to write a biography that will vindicate the young woman. Funding is to be provided by an old friend--an outrageous millionaire property developer--and further impetus by an old flame: the young woman's actress mother whom Felix worshipped when they were at university together. And it will be our great good fortune to see the world through Felix's comic, cowardly, angry, yet fundamentally humane eyes as he attempts to save the young woman--and redeem himself in the bargain.

A Long Way From Home

Peter Carey
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Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571338870

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A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey Pdf

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.

Parrot and Olivier in America

Peter Carey
Parrot and Olivier in America Book PDF

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307358363

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Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey Pdf

From the two-time Booker Prize-winning author: an irrepressible, audacious, trenchantly funny new novel set in the 19th century and inspired in part by the life of Alexis de Tocqueville. With dazzling exuberance and all the richness of characterization, story, and language that we have come to expect from this superlative writer, Peter Carey explores the birth of democracy, the limits of friendship and whether people really can remake themselves in a New World. The two men at the heart of the novel couldn't be any more different: Olivier is the son of French aristocrats who (barely) survived the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerate English printer. But when young Parrot is separated from his father (after a stupendous conflagration at a house of forgery) he runs into the powerful embrace of a one-armed marquis who will be his conduit - like it or not - into a life as closely (mis)allied with Olivier's as if they were connected by blood. And when Olivier sets sail for America - ostensibly to make a study of the American penal system, but more precisely to save his neck from the latest guillotineurs - Parrot, unable to loosen the Marquis's grip, is there too: as spy, scribe, comptroller, protector, foe and foil. As the narrative unfurls, shifting between the perspectives of Olivier and Parrot, 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.

True History of the Kelly Gang

Peter Carey
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Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307368652

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True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey Pdf

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.

Illywhacker

Peter Carey
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Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571267095

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Illywhacker by Peter Carey Pdf

An illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of this dazzling comic novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery travels across the Australian continent and a century in a picaresque novel full of outlandish encounters and dangerous characters. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, Illywhacker is a contemporary classic.

Bliss

Peter Carey
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Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307787224

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Bliss by Peter Carey Pdf

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

Peter Carey
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Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571267132

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Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey Pdf

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.

My Life as a Fake

Peter Carey
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Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307368669

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My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey Pdf

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.

The Chemistry of Tears

Peter Carey
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Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571279999

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The Chemistry of Tears by Peter Carey Pdf

London 2011. Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the unexpected death of her lover of thirteen years - but as the mistress of a married man, she has to grieve in private. Her employer at the museum, aware of Catherine's grief, gives her a special project - to piece together both the mechanics and the story of an extraordinary automaton, commissioned in the nineteenth century by Henry Brandling to amuse his dying son. Linked by the mysterious automaton, Catherine and Henry's stories intertwine across time to explore the mysteries of life and death, the miracle and catastrophe of human invention and the body's astonishing chemistry of love and feeling.

Theft: A Love Story

Peter Carey
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Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571267118

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Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey Pdf

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 Tokyo, it is a brilliant and moving exploration of art, fraud, friendship and redemption.

Jack Maggs

Peter Carey
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Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307367655

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Jack Maggs by Peter Carey Pdf

A foundling trained in the art of thievery, Jack Maggs was betrayed and deported to Australia for life. But now, having reversed his fortunes, he seeks to fulfill his innermost desire. Returning to London under threat of execution, he's quickly embroiled in various entanglements among a handful of characters -- each with their own secrets. And as their various schemes converge, the captivating figure at the epicentre is Maggs himself, at once frightening, mystifying, and utterly compelling.

His Illegal Self

Peter Carey
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Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571267125

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His Illegal Self by Peter Carey Pdf

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.

Peter Carey

Bruce Woodcock
Peter Carey Book PDF

Author : Bruce Woodcock
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719067987

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Peter Carey by Bruce Woodcock Pdf

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.

THE MAGIC PUDDING

NORMAN LINDSAY,GRANDMA'S TREASURES
THE MAGIC PUDDING Book PDF

Author : NORMAN LINDSAY,GRANDMA'S TREASURES
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329683969

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THE MAGIC PUDDING by NORMAN LINDSAY,GRANDMA'S TREASURES Pdf

A magic pudding who changes from steak and kidney to jam roll and apple dumpling in seconds. A walking, talking dessert that never runs out of pleasing things to eat. A koala bear, named Bunyip Bluegum, A sailor named Bill Barnacle, and Sam Sawnoff the penguin have a wonderful hilarious magical adventure defending the Pudding against thieves who want it for themselves.

The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

Peter Carey
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Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307764287

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The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey Pdf

The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and The Tax Inspector now gives readers a hero, the malformed but ferociously wilful Tristan Smith, who becomes the object of the world's byzantine political intrigues, even as he attains stardom in a bizarre Sirkus that is part passion play and part Mortal Kombat.