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Peter Carey

Peter Carey was born in 1943 in Australia and lives in New York. He is the author of the highly acclaimed selection of short stories, The Fat Man in History, eight novels, Bliss, Illywhacker (shortlisted for the 1985 Booker Prize), Oscar and Lucinda (winner of the 1988 Booker Prize), The Tax Inspector, The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, Jack Maggs (winner of the 1998 Commonwealth Writers Prize), True History of the Kelly Gang (winner of the 2001 Booker Prize) and My Life as a Fake, as well as a book for children, The Big Bazoohley and a memoir, Wrong About Japan.

If you like Peter Carey you might also like to read books by Tim Winton, Joseph O'Connor and David Mitchell

Featured Books, with extracts, by Peter Carey

Parrot and Olivier in America
Peter Carey
As the narrative shifts between the perspectives of Parrot, the son of an itinerant painter and Olivier, a French aristocrat and their picaresque travels together and apart - in love and politics, prisons and the world of art, Peter Carey...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011

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Parrot and Olivier in America
Peter Carey
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010. Shortlisted for the prestigious U.S. National Book Award 2010. Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2010

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