PETER CAREY (b. 1943) is an Australian novelist and short story writer. He has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice. He won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for OSCAR AND LUCINDA, and won for the second time in 2001 with TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG.
Carey's collections of short stories, THE FAT MAN IN HISTORY (1974) and WAR CRIMES (1979) -- reproduced in COLLECTED STORIES (1995) -- exhibit many grotesque and macabre elements. His novels BLISS (1981), ILLYWHACKER (1985), and OSCAR AND LUCINDA (1988) are more realistic, though Carey used black humour throughout all three. The later novels are based on the history of Australia, especially its founding and early days.
His other works include THE TAX INSPECTOR (1991); THE UNUSUAL LIFE OF TRISTAN SMITH (1994), a fable in which he explored the relationship between Australia and America; JACK MAGGS (1997); and TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG (2000), a fictional account of the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly. MY LIFE AS A FAKE (2003) and THEFT (2006) explore issues of authenticity in literature and art. HIS ILLEGAL SELF (2008) relates the story of Che, the son of radical students who left him with a wealthy grandmother, from whom he is seized and then taken on a continent-spanning journey with the ostensible purpose of reuniting with his parents. PARROT AND OLIVIER IN AMERICA (2009) is a picaresque work set in the early 19th century, loosely based on events in the life of Alexis de Tocqueville. THE CHEMISTRY OF TEARS (2012) intertwines the narratives of a contemporary museum conservator reassembling a bizarre automaton and the 19th-century man who commissioned it. AMNESIA (2015) uses cybercrime as the lens through which to view the battle of Brisbane, a 1942 encounter between U.S. soldiers and Australian military personnel and civilians.
The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise noted:
== NOVELS ==
* Amnesia (Knopf, 2015)
* Bliss (Vintage, 1996)
* Chemistry of Tears, The (Knopf, 2012)
* His Illegal Self (Knopf, 2008)
* Illywhacker (Vintage, 1996)
* Jack Maggs (Vintage, 1999)
* My Life as a Fake (Vintage, 2003)
* Oscar and Lucinda (Vintage, 1997)
* Parrot and Olivier in America (Knopf, 2010)
* Tax Inspector, The (Vintage, 1993)
* Theft: A Love Story (Vintage, 2007)
* True History of the Kelly Gang (Vintage, 2002)
* Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, The (Vintage, 1996)
== SHORT STORIES ==
* "An Abandoned Chapter" (Overland, 1997) -- PDF
* Collected Stories (Vintage, 1999)
* "Cosmic Pragmatist, The" (Nation Review, 1977) -- PDF
* Fat Man in History & Other Stories (Vintage, 1993)
* "I Know You Can Talk" (Stand Magazine, 1975) -- PDF
* "Interview with Yourself" (Manic Magazine, 1970) -- PDF
* "Mad Puzzle King, The" (Living Daylights, 1973-74) -- PDF
* "Structure" (Manic Magazine, 1970) — PDF
== JUVENILE FICTION ==
* Big Bazoohley, The: A Story for Children (Faber, 2014)
== NON-FICTION ==
* 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account (Bloomsbury, 2008)
* Wrong about Japan (Vintage, 2006)
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