Book description
Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included
such masterworks as 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 other honors include the
Commonwealth Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. Born in Australia, he
has lived in New York City for 20 years.
