- Fiction, Near-death experiences, Suburban life, Australia, fiction
Peter Carey's novel is a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell.
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About the book
- Author
- Peter Carey
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 300
- Publisher
- Ediciones Alfaguara, Faber Faber Inc, Faber
- Editions
- 25
- Language
- French, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780143571247
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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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