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The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : 43,6 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 : 47,8 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.

Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1417719206

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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.

My Life as a Fake

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,8 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.

The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,8 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.

Jack Maggs

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 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.

Peter Carey

Author : Bruce Woodcock
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : 53,8 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 Tax Inspector

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307367679

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From Granny Catchprice, who runs her family business -- and her family -- with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives to sixteen-year-old Benny, who dreams of transforming a failing automobile franchise into an empire -- and himself into an angel -- the Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky's Karamozovs. But when a beautiful and very pregnant agent of the Australian Taxation Office enters their lives, the resulting collision becomes, in Carey's hands, masterpiece of coal-black humour and compassionate horror.

Bliss

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 42,7 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.

Amnesia

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 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.

Illywhacker

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 49,8 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.

His Illegal Self

Author : Peter Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571267125

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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.

Fabulating Beauty

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401202749

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Fabulating Beauty by Anonim Pdf

Peter Carey is one of Australia’s finest creative writers, much admired by both literary critics and a worldwide reading public. While academia has been quick to see his fictions as exemplars of postcolonial and postmodern writing strategies, his general readership has been captivated by his deadpan sense of humour, his quirky characters, the outlandish settings and the grotesqueries of his intricate plots. After three decades of prolific writing and multiple award-winning, Carey stands out in the world of Australian letters as designated heir to Patrick White. Fabulating Beauty pays tribute to Carey’s literary achievement. It brings together the voices of many of the most renowned Carey critics in twenty essays (sixteen commissioned especially for this volume), an interview with the author, as well as the most extensive bibliography of Carey criticism to date. The studies represent a wide range of current perspectives on the writer’s fictions. Contributors focus on issues as diverse as the writer’s biography; his use of architectural metaphors; his interrogation of narrative structures such as myths and cultural master-plots; intertextual strategies; concepts of sacredness and references to the Christian tradition; and his strategies of rewriting history. Amidst predictions of the imminent death of ‘postist’ theory, the essays all attest to the ongoing relevance of the critical parameters framed by postmodernism and postcolonialism.