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 Peter Carey in general
Newest Review: ... so The Fat Man in History can be enjoyed as a single cohesive book. What’s immediately remarkable about these stories is they all take place in this weird location that seems to be the near future or it could just as easily be some alternative universe. Though it is probably more like a dream state, somewhere both frightening and familiar. And many of the plots have a kind of terrible ... more  ... nightmare logic to them. In this world Australia and the USA seem to share a land border, the earth is being slowly colonised by extraterrestrial birds, and buildings and people ignored by a census automatically dematerialise. But the characters have...more |
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Peter Carey in general: The Fat Man In History (691 words)
by - written on 28/03/01 (Very useful, 604 readings)
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Readers who are familiar just with Peter Carey’s serious award-winning historical fiction like Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs might find these strange, playful and sinister pieces of work something of a shock. His collections of short stories published in Britain as The Fat Man in History are the earliest, least well known and most untypical of his work, though in my opinion they are the best. And though not in print anymore they are well worth tracking down through second hand book shops. I think many short story compilations (including this one) don’t get the recognition they deserve because they are perceived as insubstantial and not fulfilling, ... Read the complete review
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