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Books by Peter Stafford Carey
  | | An Introductory Lecture on the Study of English Law by Peter Stafford Carey Hardcover, Published 2015 by Sagwan Press ISBN-13: 978-1-296-96501-3, ISBN: 1-296-96501-5 |
 | | Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Stafford Carey Paperback, 592 Pages, Published 2011 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-25332-6, ISBN: 0-571-25332-6 "Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2010: In this vivid and visceral work of historical fiction, two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey imagines the experiences of Alexis de Tocqueville, the great French political philosopher and author of Democracy in America. Carey brings de Tocqueville to life through the fictionalized character of Olivier de Garmont, a coddled and conceited French aristocrat. Olivier can only begin to grasp how ..." |
 | | An Introductory Lecture On the Study of English Law by Peter Stafford Carey Softcover, Published 2023 by Legare Street Press ISBN-13: 978-1-02-286422-1, ISBN: 1-02-286422-X |
 | | An Introductory Lecture On the Study of English Law by Peter Stafford Carey Hardcover, Published 2023 by Legare Street Press ISBN-13: 978-1-02-074756-4, ISBN: 1-02-074756-0 |
 | | True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Stafford Carey Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2011 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-27015-6, ISBN: 0-571-27015-8 " 「我々オーストラリア人にとって彼とは何なのか？」 ピーター・ケリーの著書『True History of the Kelly Gang』の最後で、校長が尋ねる。 「オーストラリアには、ジェファーソンやディズレイリのような人物はいないのか？ まさか馬泥棒や殺人者以外に尊敬に値する人物がいないということはないと思うが」 死後100年以上たつ今なお、ネッド・ケリーが人々の記憶に生き続けていることに対して複雑な思いを抱いている著者も、この校長には同感だろう。病的な殺人者とも義勇軍的ヒーローともみなされているネッド・ケリーは、警察の容赦ない追跡から2年近く巧みに逃れ続けた無法者で、射撃の名手だった。良しにつけ悪きにつけ、いまや彼はオーストラリアの伝説の一部となり得た。現にシドニーオリンピックの開会式は、アイルランド音楽に合わせて踊るケリーギャングをフィーチャーしたものだったではないか。つまり、カンガルーやオリビア・ニュートン・ジョンと並んで、彼はシンボル的な存在 ..." |
 | | His Illegal Self(1st Edition) by Peter Stafford Carey Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2008 by Knopf Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26372-8, ISBN: 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 saying, Here is your mother returned to you.His Illegal Self is the story of Che—raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, he is the precocious son of ra ..." |
 | | The Big Bazoohley(1st Edition) by Peter Stafford Carey, Abira Ali Hardcover, 135 Pages, Published 1995 by Henry Holt And Co. (Byr) ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-3855-2, ISBN: 0-8050-3855-8 ""This novel is so full of pleasures that readers, along with the characters, receive a swell payoff--start to finish, it’s one Big Bazoohley of a book." --Publishers Weekly, starred review" |
 | | The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith(1st Edition) by Peter Stafford Carey Hardcover, 422 Pages, Published 1995 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-679-43888-5, ISBN: 0-679-43888-2 "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 Kombat." |
 | | Oscar and Lucinda(1st Edition) by Peter Stafford Carey Hardcover, 433 Pages, Published 1988 by Harper & Row ISBN-13: 978-0-06-015908-5, ISBN: 0-06-015908-1 "This novel tells the story of Oscar Hopkins, an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling and Lucinda Leplastrier, a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1865. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be changed forever...Peter Carey is the author of "The Fat Man in History", "Bliss" which won the Miles Franklin Award and the NSW Premier Award, and "Illywhacker", which was shortlisted for the 1985 ..." |
 | | Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Stafford Carey Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2011 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-27016-3, ISBN: 0-571-27016-6 "Paperback. Pub Date :2011-02-03 Pages: 544 Language: English Publisher: Faber and Faber Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be forever changed ... Daring. rich. intense and bizarre. Peter Careys Booker prize-winning novel is a brilliant achievement - a moving love ..." |
 | | Parrot and Olivier in America(Reprint) by Peter Stafford Carey Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2011 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-47601-2, ISBN: 0-307-47601-4 "Amazon Best Books of the Month, April 2010: In this vivid and visceral work of historical fiction, two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey imagines the experiences of Alexis de Tocqueville, the great French political philosopher and author of Democracy in America. Carey brings de Tocqueville to life through the fictionalized character of Olivier de Garmont, a coddled and conceited French aristocrat. Olivier can only begin to grasp how ..." |
 | | Antarctica Cruising Guide(2nd Edition) Includes Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Ross Sea by Peter Stafford Carey, Craig Franklin Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2009 by Awa Press Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-0-9582916-3-7, ISBN: 0-9582916-3-2 "Now packed with three additional destination sections, as well as even more breathtaking color photographs, wildlife descriptions, and detailed area maps, this updated edition to a bestselling Antarctican travel guide includes fascinating, full accounts of interesting places, spectacular landscapes, and local plants and wildlife—from penguins and other birds to whales, seals, and myriad mammals. A definitive field guide to Antarctica, t ..." |
 | | My Life as a Fake(Reprint) by Peter Stafford Carey Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2005 by Vintage Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3088-0, ISBN: 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 despised literary hoaxer, carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit. But in this dubious man ..." |
 | | My Life as a Fake by Peter Stafford Carey Published 2003 by Recorded Books 2003-10-28 ISBN-13: 978-1-4025-5600-5, ISBN: 1-4025-5600-4 |
 | | The Fat Man in History by Peter Stafford Carey Paperback, 234 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Queensland Pr (Australia) ISBN-13: 978-0-7022-3020-2, ISBN: 0-7022-3020-0 "The first collection of short stories published by Peter Carey, whose other books include "Bliss", "Illywhacker" and "Oscar and Lucinda", which was awarded the 1988 Booker Prize. The stories, set in an ominous near-future that has a feel of contemporary life, are by turn bizarre and funny." |
 | | Oscar and Lucinda(Reprint) by Peter Stafford Carey Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1995 by Perennial International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-06-091592-6, ISBN: 0-06-091592-7 "Oscar Hopkins is a high-strung preacher's kid with hydrophobia and noisy knees. Lucinda Leplastrier is a frizzy-haired heiress who impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. In the early parts of this lushly written book, author Peter Carey renders the seminal turning points in his protagonists' childhoods as exquisite 19th-century set pieces. Young Oscar, denied the heavenly f ..." |
 | | An Introductory Lecture On the Study of English Law by Carey, Peter Stafford Trade Paperback, Published 2018 by Sagwan Press ISBN-13: 978-1-376-46257-9, ISBN: 1-376-46257-5 |
 | | Jack Maggs by Peter Stafford Carey Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2011 by Faber & Faber ISBN-13: 978-0-571-27017-0, ISBN: 0-571-27017-4 "As a novelist, Peter Carey is hardly a stranger to the 19th century: his Oscar and Lucinda was a veritable treasure-trove of Victoriana. In this novel, however, Carey has set himself an even more complicated task--reinterpreting not only a vanished era but one of that era's masterpieces. Jack Maggs is a variation on Great Expectations, in which Dickens's tale is told from the viewpoint of Australian convict Abel Magwitch. The names ..." |
 | | Theft(1st Edition) A Love Story by Peter 1943- Carey, Peter Stafford Carey Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2006 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-307-26371-1, ISBN: 0-307-26371-1 "From the two-time Booker Prizeâwinning author and recipient of the Commonwealth Prize comes this new novel about obsession, deception, and redemption, at once an engrossing psychological suspense story and a work of highly charged, fiendishly funny literary fiction.Michaelâa.k.a. âButcherââBoone is an exââreally famousâ painter: opinionated, furious, brilliant, and now reduced to living in the remote country house of his ..." |
 | | Wrong About Japan(1st Edition) A Father's Journey with His Son by Peter Stafford Carey Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2005 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-4311-8, ISBN: 1-4000-4311-5 "The recipient of two Booker Prizes, Peter Carey expands his extraordinary achievement with each new novel–and now gives us something entirely different.When famously shy Charley becomes obsessed with Japanese manga and anime, Peter is not only delighted for his son but also entranced himself. Thus begins a journey, with a father sharing his twelve-year-old’s exotic comic books, that ultimately leads them to Tokyo, where a strange Japane ..." |
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