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Collected Stories by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Double Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's dazzling stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes are collected in one volume, together with three vintage stories not previously published in book form. In each story Carey reveals the surreal within the ordinary. A man begins peeling off his girlfrien ...Show more
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1972 and Ché, a precocious seven - almost - eight-year-old boy, leads a rather bourgeois life on Park Avenue with his eccentric grandmother. His parents are young radicals in hiding from the FBI – he has never even met his father and he last saw his mother at the age of two. Ché is ecstatic when a ...Show more
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
His Illegal Self is the story of Che. Raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, he is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties. Yearning for his famous Outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long-haired t ...Show more
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarc ...Show more
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Herbert Badgery is vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch. He might very well be the embodiment of Australia's national character, especially in its fondness for tall stories and questionable history.As this charming scoundrel traverses the continent and a century's wort ...Show more
Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by Peter Carey
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the prison island of Australia. He has the demeanor of a savage and the skills of a har ...Show more
Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by PETER CAREY
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by Carey Peter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The year is 1837 and ex-convict Jack Maggs has returned illegally to London from Australia. Installing himself in the household of a genteel grocer, he attracts the attention of a cross-section of society. Saucy Mercy Larkin wants him for a mate. Writer Tobias Oates wants to possess his soul through hyp ...Show more
My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
MY LIFE AS A FAKE is a fantastical gothic tale, in part inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, about a hoax poet who mysteriously materialises and then pursues, taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker. Two-time Booker prize winning author Peter Carey uses the Ern Malley hoax as a springboard, ...Show more
My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
My Life as a Fake is a fantastical gothic tale, in part inspired by Mary Shelley
My Life as a Fake by Carey Peter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake, with a cover by Michael Leunig In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, editor of a London poetry journal, meets the mysterious Christopher Chubb. An Australian literary hoaxer, Chubb is carting around a manuscript likely f ...Show more