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February 2015 ENGLISH READING CLUB
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PETER
CAREY
His illegal self
PETERCAREY (7 May 1943, Victoria, Australia)
-------------------------------- BIOGRAPHY Peter Philip Carey
is Australian writer known for use of the surreal in his
short stories and novels. He studied science at Monash University. His early contact with the writers Barry Oakley and Morris Lurie turned him towards writing and advertising and he supported himself by writing advertising copy during the early part of his literary career (a trait he shares with Salman Rushdie). Carey moved from Melbourne to London and then to Sydney before taking up residence in New York in the late 80s where he teaches creative writing at New York University. Although not considered a science fiction writer as such, Carey utilises some elements in his writing which have caught the eye of a number of science fiction readers in Australia and around the world. Illywhacker won the Ditmar Award for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel in 1986. In May 1998, Jack Maggs had won the 1998 Commonwealth Writers Prize. Carey declined an invitation to meet the Queen. He has made no secret of his feelings on the issue of an Australian Republic. Although Carey's stories have been compared to the works of Jorge Luis Borges and Donald Barthelme, the stories more strongly reflect that peculiar blend of "real through fantastic" noticeable in the writings of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Similarities in style can also be found between Carey's books and the works of writers like James Joyce, Jack Kerouac, William Faulkner, Robbe-Grillet, Bob Dylan, and Graham Greene. His latest novel is The Chemistry of Tears (2012), which tells the story of a clock expert who is restoring an automaton while grieving for her lost lover. Peter Carey was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished services to literature, in 2012.
More info: http://www.petercareybooks.com/
----------------------------------SELECTED WORKS
The Fat Man in History (1974). War Crimes (1979). Bliss (1981). Illywhacker (1985). Oscar and Lucinda (1988). The Tax Inspector (1991). The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (1994). Collected Stories (1994). A Letter to Our Son (1994). Jack Maggs (1997). True History of the Kelly Gang (2000). 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account (2001). My Life as a Fake (2003). Wrong about Japan (2004). Theft: A Love Story (2005). His Illegal Self (2008). The Chemistry of Tears (2012).
----------------------His illegal self (2008) His illegal self is the story of Che –raised by his New York grandmother, son of radical students activists at Harvard in the sixties. Soon Che is an outlaw. He begins a journey that leads him to a hippie commune. Here he slowly confronts his life, learning that nothing is what it seems. Who is his real mother? And father? *** 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.