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"After living in New York for ten years novelist Peter Carey returned home to Sydney with the idea of capturing its ebullient character via the four elements. 'I would never seek to define Manhattan by asking my New York friends for stories of Earth and Air and Fire and Water,' he writes, 'but that is exactly what was in my mind as I walked through immigration at Kingsford Smith International Airport.' But Carey's…
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Contemporary, warm, character-led and cool.
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Peter Carey
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 248
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury USA, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780747596882
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Peter Philip Carey (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988, for *Oscar and Lucinda,* and won his second Booker Prize in 2001, for *True History of the Kelly Gang.* He has also won the Miles Franklin Award three times. In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and was, for nineteen years, executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York.
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