Peter Carey

Bruce Woodcock, John Thieme, Rebecca Mortimer

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Manchester Univ. Press
13 November 2003

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Series: Contemporary World Writers

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"Peter Carey is one of the most respected novelists currently writing. Since the original edition of this book, Carey's fiction has reached a far wider international audience: he has won the Booker Prize for the second time with ""True History of the Kelly Gang"", while ""Oscar and Lucinda"" has been made into a successful feature film. Bruce Woodcock's revised and expanded critical study now includes detailed readings of the novels ""Jack Maggs"" and ""True History of the Kelly Gang"", seeing them as the finest productions of a writer who continues to surprise and delight his readers with inventive creations and unique imagination. The book explores Carey's position not only as a great entertainer but also as a disturbing postcolonial writer, setting his work in relation to his life and influences. Using previously neglected radio interviews amongst other documents, Woodcock sees Carey as a fictional shadow maker, whose characters often inhabit the unpredictable borderlands of experience.

Commenting on the novels' fabulist, surrealist and postmodernist elements, Woodcock also stresses the political concerns of Carey's work and presents him as a syncretic writer who relishes the diversity of his varied imaginings and his own capacity to take risks with his fiction. Woodcock provides both students and the general reader with detailed examinations of all Carey's major works as well as a survey of critical debates."

By: Bruce Woodcock
Series edited by: John Thieme
Other: Rebecca Mortimer
Imprint: Manchester Univ. Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 236g
ISBN: 9780719067983
ISBN 10: 0719067987
Series: Contemporary World Writers
Publication Date: 13 November 2003
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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Peter Carey

Bruce Woodcock, John Thieme, Rebecca Mortimer

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