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Parrot and Olivier in America
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-59262-0 (0-307-59262-6)
From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author: an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early-nineteenth-century America.
Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville—is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English engraver. They are born on different sides of history... Read more >
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 20, 2010
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-59262-0 (0-307-59262-6)
From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author: an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early-nineteenth-century America.
Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville—is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English engraver. They are born on different sides of history... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
His Illegal Self
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27649-0 (0-307-27649-X)
Seven-year-old Che Selkirk was raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. The son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties, Che has grown up with the hope that one day his parents will come back for him. So when a woman arrives at his front door... Read more >
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27649-0 (0-307-27649-X)
Seven-year-old Che Selkirk was raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. The son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties, Che has grown up with the hope that one day his parents will come back for him. So when a woman arrives at his front door... Read more >
His Illegal Self
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26372-8 (0-307-26372-X)
When the boy was almost eight, a woman stepped out of the elevator into the apartment on East Sixty-second Street and he recognized her straightaway. No one had told him to expect it. That was pretty typical of growing up with Grandma Selkirk . . . No one would dream of... Read more >
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: February 5, 2008
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-26372-8 (0-307-26372-X)
When the boy was almost eight, a woman stepped out of the elevator into the apartment on East Sixty-second Street and he recognized her straightaway. No one had told him to expect it. That was pretty typical of growing up with Grandma Selkirk . . . No one would dream of... Read more >
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trade paperback.
Theft
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27648-3 (0-307-27648-1)
Michael "Butcher" Boone is an ex-“really famous" painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they've forged a delicate equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when a mysterious young woman named Marlene walks out of a rainstorm and into... Read more >
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27648-3 (0-307-27648-1)
Michael "Butcher" Boone is an ex-“really famous" painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they've forged a delicate equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when a mysterious young woman named Marlene walks out of a rainstorm and into... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Wrong About Japan
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 3, 2006
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7836-3 (1-4000-7836-9)
Previous winner of two Booker Prizes, Peter Carey expands his extraordinary achievement with each new novel — but now gives us something entirely different.
When famously shy Charley Carey becomes obsessed with Japanese manga and anime, Peter is not only delighted for his son, but entranced himself. Thus, with a father... Read more >
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 3, 2006
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7836-3 (1-4000-7836-9)
Previous winner of two Booker Prizes, Peter Carey expands his extraordinary achievement with each new novel — but now gives us something entirely different.
When famously shy Charley Carey becomes obsessed with Japanese manga and anime, Peter is not only delighted for his son, but entranced himself. Thus, with a father... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
My Life as a Fake
A Novel
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3088-0 (1-4000-3088-9)
Fiendishly devious and addictively readable, Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake is a moral labyrinth constructed around the uneasy relationship between literature and lying. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry journal, meets a mysterious Australian named Christopher Chubb. Chubb is a... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3088-0 (1-4000-3088-9)
Fiendishly devious and addictively readable, Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake is a moral labyrinth constructed around the uneasy relationship between literature and lying. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry journal, meets a mysterious Australian named Christopher Chubb. Chubb is a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
True History of the Kelly Gang
A Novel
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72467-1 (0-375-72467-2)
Winner of the 2001 Booker Prize
Out of nineteenth-century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations, in this masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs. Exhilarating, hilarious, panoramic, and immediately engrossing, it is also—at a distance of many thousand miles... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72467-1 (0-375-72467-2)
Winner of the 2001 Booker Prize
Out of nineteenth-century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations, in this masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs. Exhilarating, hilarious, panoramic, and immediately engrossing, it is also—at a distance of many thousand miles... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Jack Maggs
A Novel
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76037-5 (0-679-76037-7)
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1998
"Jack Maggs is a dazzling tale of obsession, and Jack Maggs stands as a remarkable character, a resurrected antipodean lag returned to England for vengeance and reconciliation."
--Thomas Keneally
From the Booker Prize-winning author, a vivid and robust novel of Dickensian London--a place... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76037-5 (0-679-76037-7)
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1998
"Jack Maggs is a dazzling tale of obsession, and Jack Maggs stands as a remarkable character, a resurrected antipodean lag returned to England for vengeance and reconciliation."
--Thomas Keneally
From the Booker Prize-winning author, a vivid and robust novel of Dickensian London--a place... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Oscar and Lucinda
movie tie-in edition
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 11, 1997
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-77750-2 (0-679-77750-4)
Winner of the Booker Prize
This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent--a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms--could a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions... Read more >
movie tie-in edition
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 11, 1997
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-77750-2 (0-679-77750-4)
Winner of the Booker Prize
This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent--a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms--could a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions... Read more >
Illywhacker
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 30, 1996
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76790-9 (0-679-76790-8)
Carey can spin a yarn with the best of them... Illywhacker is a big, garrulous, funny novel.... If you haven't been to Australia, read Illywhacker. It will give you the feel of it like nothing else I know." -- The New York Times Book ReviewIn Australian slang, an illywhacker is a... Read more >
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 30, 1996
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76790-9 (0-679-76790-8)
Carey can spin a yarn with the best of them... Illywhacker is a big, garrulous, funny novel.... If you haven't been to Australia, read Illywhacker. It will give you the feel of it like nothing else I know." -- The New York Times Book ReviewIn Australian slang, an illywhacker is a... Read more >
Bliss
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76719-0 (0-679-76719-3)
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Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76719-0 (0-679-76719-3)
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The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76036-8 (0-679-76036-9)
The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and The Tax Inspector now gives readers a hero, the malformed but ferociously wilful Tristan Smith, who becomes the object of the world's byzantine political intrigues, even as he attains stardom in a bizarre Sirkus that is part passion play and part Mortal... Read more >
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 30, 1996
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76036-8 (0-679-76036-9)
The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and The Tax Inspector now gives readers a hero, the malformed but ferociously wilful Tristan Smith, who becomes the object of the world's byzantine political intrigues, even as he attains stardom in a bizarre Sirkus that is part passion play and part Mortal... Read more >
Fat Man in History
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 1993
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74332-3 (0-679-74332-4)
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Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 1993
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74332-3 (0-679-74332-4)
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The Tax Inspector
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 1993
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73598-4 (0-679-73598-4)
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Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 1993
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73598-4 (0-679-73598-4)
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