Peter Carey Libri

Irene Bobs ama la guida veloce e pericolosa. Suo marito Titch è il miglior venditore d’auto nelle campagne del sud est dell’Australia, anche se succube delle angherie e dell’invadenza del padre. Insieme, Irene e Titch si iscrivono alla Redex Trial, una brutale gara automobilistica che parte da Sydney e attraversa tutto il continente, lungo strade da cui nessun’auto può uscire indenne. I due coinvolgono nell’impresa come navigatore Willie Bachhuber, campione di quiz radiofonici e maestro di scuola fallito, per guidarli lungo le curve e le insidie del percorso. Il viaggio e i suoi pericoli faranno emergere segreti, diffidenze, sospetti e verità celate tra i membri dello strambo equipaggio. Il nuovo romanzo di Peter Carey, due volte vincitore del Booker Prize, è una storia ad alta velocità, capace di sorprendere e divertire a ogni pagina tanto i lettori quanto gli stessi protagonisti, mentre si addentrano in un mondo sempre più lontano dal paese rassicuranteche conoscono.

The stories in Peter Carey's collection are bizarre, funny and chilling. Their landscape is exotic and surreal, an ominous near-future that has the distinct feel of contemporary life. Carey's narratives are an exhilarating blend of fable, fantasy and allegory in which, as in dreams, something odd and menacing takes control. Here are societies in which people gamble for new bodies in a genetic lottery or watch apprehensively as first buildings, then parts of the landscape, and eventually their neighbours, begin to dematerialise and vanish. Here is what happens when a miniature replica of a small town and its inhabitants assumes a more compelling reality than its original or when a group of fat men, ostracised by a revolutionary government, plot its overthrow.

Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories. This volume collects together all the stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes as well as three other stories.

Told in the form of a journal justifying Ned Kelly to the daughter he would never meet, this is a mesmerising act of historical imagining by one of the most popular novelists at work today.

Forget the limpid, dreamlike views we saw on the television during the Olympics, the paradise of hedonism represented by Bondi Beach and the rest; Sydney is a savage city, as violent in its setting and its weather as it is in its history. This is a brief and heartfelt account of an expatriate writer revisiting his past, examining as he does so the paradox of a blessed country with a bloody, accursed past. Above all, this book is about Australian mateship, and it is the biographies, jokes and stories of Peter's friends and contemporaries that provide the backbone.

In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery is a walking embodiment of the Australian national character--espcially of its proclivity for tall stories and barefaced lies. As Carey follows this charming scoundrel across a continent and a century, he creates a crazy quilt of outlandish encounters, with characters that include a genteel dowager who fends off madness with an electric belt and a ravishing young girl with a dangerous fondness for rooftop trysts. Boldly inventive, irresistibly odd, Illywhacker is further proof that Peter Carey is one of the most enchanting writers at work in any hemisphere.

A special Christmas edition of Carey's best-selling novel.

Bliss : the debut novel from twice Booker Prize-winner, Peter Carey, author of Amnesia, Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang .

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