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The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307764287

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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.

The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781743484357

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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.

The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571267040

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If you are not a citizen of Voorstand, you may not be familiar with the strange case of Tristan Smith and his illegal appropriation of Bruder Mouse. Even if you are a citizen of faraway Efica, you will only have heard rumours about the juggling, the somersaulting, the Burro Plasse tunnel, and the motel on the border...Here, for the first time, is the truth about Tristan Smith. This fully annotated edition follows Tristan's career from his birth in the Republic of Efica in the year 371 to the present day.

Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:225531593

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The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Picaresque literature
ISBN : 0394073142

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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. Set in the nations of Voorstand and Efica.

Illywhacker

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 52,5 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.

My Life as a Fake

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307368669

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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 Canada
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 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.

Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1417719206

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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.

Amnesia

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345814906

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Amnesia by Peter Carey Pdf

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.

Oscar and Lucinda

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 53,6 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.

His Illegal Self

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,9 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

Author : Bruce Woodcock
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 Pain of Unbelonging

Author : Sheila Collingwood-Whittick
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042021877

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The Pain of Unbelonging by Sheila Collingwood-Whittick Pdf

Beyond the obvious and enduring socio-economic ravages it unleashed on indigenous cultures, white settler colonization in Australasia also inflicted profound damage on the collective psyche of both of the communities that inhabited the contested space of the colonial world. The acute sense of alienation that colonization initially provoked in the colonized and colonizing populations of Australia and New Zealand has, recent studies indicate, developed into an endemic, existential pathology. Evidence of the psychological fallout from the trauma of geographical deracination, cultural disorientation and ontological destabilization can be found not only in the state of anomie and self-destructive patterns of behaviour that now characterize the lives of indigenous Australian and Maori peoples, but also in the perpetually faltering identity-discourse and cultural rootlessness of the present descendants of the countries' Anglo-Celtic settlers. It is with the literary expression of this persistent condition of alienation that the essays gathered in the present volume are concerned. Covering a heterogeneous selection of contemporary Australasian literature, what these critical studies convincingly demonstrate is that, more than two hundred years after the process of colonisation was set in motion, the experience that Germaine Greer has dubbed 'the pain of unbelonging' continues unabated, constituting a dominant thematic concern in the writing produced today by Australian and New Zealand authors.

The Gone-Away World

Author : Nick Harkaway
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307270375

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The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway Pdf

A hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an all out kung-fu infused mission to save the world. “A flat-out ferociously good novel.... Reads like a surrealist smashup of Pynchon and Pratchett, Vonnegut and Heller.” —Austin Chronicle Gonzo Lubitch and his best friend have been inseparable since birth. They grew up together, they studied kung-fu together, they rebelled in college together, and they fought in the Go Away War together. Now, with the world in shambles and dark, nightmarish clouds billowing over the wastelands, they have been tapped for an incredibly perilous mission. But they quickly realize that this assignment is more complex than it seems, and before it is over they will have encountered everything from mimes, ninjas, and pirates to one ultra-sinister mastermind, whose only goal is world domination.