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Peter Carey (1943-) is an author. One of the few authors to win the Booker Prize two times, Carey is best known for his novel Oscar and Lucinda.

Life[]

Born in the Bacchus Marsh of Victoria in May of 1943, Carey's family owned a car dealership (dubbed "Carey Motors"), After attending the town's State School, Carey attended the Geelong Grammar School. Carey then attended Monash University (which had only been built a few years ago) and planned to get degrees in chemistry and zoology but dropped out. While at Monash, he met his wife (who also dropped out).

His first job after dropping out of college was as an advertiser alongside (according to him) author Morris Lurre and satirist Bruce Petty. While working as an advertiser, Carey read prolificly (most notably reading from Kafka, Joyce, William Faulkner, Samuel Beckett, and Gabriel García Márquez) and began to write. During this time, Carey wrote several novels which were never published and are now held by the University of Queensland.

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Writing style[]

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Notable works[]

  • The Fat Man in History
  • War Crimes

Novels[]

  • Bliss - Carey's debut (at least, his first to be published) novel. About an ad executive who realizes that he is living in Hell.
  • Illywhacker - a novel about the life of a conman
  • Oscar and Lucinda - a novel about two gamblers falling in love
  • The Tax Inspector - a novel about a dysfunctional family
  • The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith - a novel about a deformed boy raised by an avant garde theatre collective
  • Jack Maggs - a reworking of Great Expectations
  • True History of the Kelly Gang - a novel about the life and gang of Ned Kelly
  • My Life as a Fake - a novel based on the Ern Malley hoax
  • Theft - a novel about an artist's early twilight
  • His Illegal Self - a novel set in the 1970s about a boy becoming an outlaw
  • Parrot and Olivier in America - a novel based on Alexis de Tocqueville's trips to America
  • The Chemistry of Tears - a novel about the rebuilding of a mechanical parrot
  • Amnesia - a novel about a computer virus causing chaos
  • A Long Way from Home - a novel about three people voyaging on the Redex Trail

Nonfiction[]

  • A Letter to Our Son
  • 30 Days in Sydney
  • Letter from New York
  • Wrong About Japan

See also[]

  • J.G. Farrell
  • J.M. Coetzee
  • Hilary Mantel
  • Margaret Atwood
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