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Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey
This whimsical novel, winner of the 1988 Booker Prize, is set in Victorian England and Australia, is the story of two highly unusual people: Oscar Hopkins, rebellious son of a disciplinarian...... read more
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Theft
Peter Carey
Peter Carey, Australian writer and winner of two Booker Prizes (OSCAR AND LUCINDA and TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG), returns with a bawdy and wickedly plotted tale of a formerly...... read more
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My Life As A Fake
Peter Carey
Based on a famous hoax perpetrated in Australia in 1943, Peter Carey explores imagination and its relation to fact in this novel about a woman named Sarah Wode - Douglass, editor of...... read more
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Jack Maggs
Peter Carey
In Peter Carey's literary fantasy, one of Dickens's characters (Magwitch in GREAT EXPECTATIONS) is a real person, and tries to murder the novelist for caricaturing and sentimentalizi...... read more
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Wrong About Japan
Peter Carey
In this slim, intriguing volume, fiction writer (and Booker Prizewinner) Peter Carey takes his 12-year-old son, Charley, on vacation to Japan. An avid fan of manga and anime (Japanese...... read more
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The Tax Inspector
Peter Carey
Carey's powerful 1991 novel dissects the troubled Catchprice family, which includes Frieda, the dotty matriarch; her daughter Cathy who wants to be a country singer; Mort, who, trapped...... read more
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The Big Bazoohley
Peter Carey
Stuck in Toronto during a blizzard, Sam Kellow and his family are staying in a $453 a night hotel. Unfortunately, they are down to their last $40. Sam is sure that the family is ruined,...... read more
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Illywhacker
Peter Carey
The life and loves of Herbert Badgery, a 139-year-old car salesman and snake-fancier, who is torn between the desire to be a good man and his need to attract people by means of his...... read more
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