Collected Stories
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1996
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Main - Re-issue
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-17586-4 (ISBN)
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-17586-4 (ISBN)
Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories. This volume collects together all the stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes as well as three other stories.
Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories and this volume collects together all the stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes as well as three other stories not previously published in book form.
The stories, persuasive and precisely crafted, reveal Carey to be a moralist with a sense of humour, a surrealist interested in naturalism and an urban poet delighting in paradox.
Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories and this volume collects together all the stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes as well as three other stories not previously published in book form.
The stories, persuasive and precisely crafted, reveal Carey to be a moralist with a sense of humour, a surrealist interested in naturalism and an urban poet delighting in paradox.
Peter Carey received the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda and again for True History of the Kelly Gang. His novel, Parrot and Olivier in America, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2010. His other honours include the Commonwealth Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. Born in Australia, he has lived in New York for twenty years. www.petercareybooks.com
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.8.2004 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 125 x 195 mm |
| Gewicht | 250 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| ISBN-10 | 0-571-17586-4 / 0571175864 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-571-17586-4 / 9780571175864 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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