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| | 1. |  | Theft
from Vintage
Price: $11.16
Customer Review:
Peter Carey is a writer I respect a lot. I think he has class and a real talent to put together great stories. Because he is so high in the ranks for me, I may be harsher with this review than with others - because "Theft" is a very good novel, showing true mastery of words, but it is not... more info
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| | 2. |  | His Illegal Self
from Knopf
Price: $16.47
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Who ever wrote the inside flap summing up this book did a better job then the other telling his boring no one cares story. If you can even call it a story cause there wasnt much of one.Nothing happens at all, after the kidnapping. Dont waste your time with it, there are a million books that are... more info
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| | 3. |  | Wrong About Japan
from Vintage
Price: $9.56
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Japanese culture is an obtuse, inscrutable creature, and for anyone hoping to capture a feeling of the "real" Japan without actually going there it presents an impossible task. Samurai, the tea ceremony, and proper chopstick use are all well and good, but they present about as accurate a picture of... more info
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| | 4. |  | Bliss
from Vintage
Price: $10.40
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Carey is obviously a talented writer and I enjoyed his musings on commercialism, modernity, hell, heaven etc. and his ability to create eccentric characters and odd situational motifs, but in the end I didn't really care about the characters or what happened to them given that they were types of one... more info
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| | 5. |  | My Life as a Fake
from Vintage
Price: $11.86
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My Life As A Fake by Peter Carey is a strange, multi-layered journey through a man's past, his artistic inspiration and his products, both illusory and real. Christopher Chubb is Australian and a budding poet. He resents the privilege of a certain litterateur and so he decides to nail him. An... more info
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| | 6. | [no image] | Illywhacker
from University of Queensland Press
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My copy of this book was a gift, and I was suckered in by the adjective "funny" from the review on the cover. Intrigued, I read all the glowing reviews from the "big name" periodicals and prepared myself for one amazing read. By the first hundred pages, as I got familiar with the protagonist and the... more info
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| | 7. |  | True History of the Kelly Gang
from Knopf
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This book tells the story of infamous Australian outlaw Ned Kelly (sort of the Australian Jesse James, for comparison's sake).
The writing style could be considered a tad challenging due to the regional slang that's incorporated, but the subject matter really makes up for it. Ned's life story,... more info
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| | 8. |  | Collected Stories
from Faber and Faber
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Here are the complete (26) short stories of Peter Carey in a single volume, including those collected in the books "The Fat Man in History" (Crabs, Peeling, Life & Death in the South Side Pavilion, Room No. 5 (Escribo), Happy Story, A Windmill in the West, Withdrawal, Report on the Shadow... more info
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| | 9. | [no image] | Oscar and Lucinda
from Faber and Faber
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no spoilers; just synopsis
a) don't see the movie unless you read the book...something gets really lost between the two
b)Excellent, simply excellent!!! I would recommend this book to anyone who appreciates superlative writing and a quirky story. If every book were like this one, I would... more info
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| | 10. |  | Fat Man in History
from Vintage
Price: $9.60
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I agree with the other reviewers that these stories are indeed marvelous. This is a different Carey than one often encounters in his novels. There is more of an edge, more of a threat, a greater distance from reality as we know it and a very different reality created by the author so if you don't... more info
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