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His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
$15.00 AUD
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: near fine
Che is a precocious young boy raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents--radical 1960s activists who are now among the FBI's most wanted--he's denied all access to television and the news. But he takes hope from his long-haired teenage neighbor, who ...Show more
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Carey can spin a yarn with the best of them . . . Illywhacker is a big, garrulous, funny novel, touching, farcical and passionately bad-tempered.--Howard Jacobson, New York Times An illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of this dazzling comic novel, may be ...Show more
Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by PETER CAREY
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by Peter Carey
$10.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
A foundling trained in the art of thievery, Jack Maggs was betrayed and deported to Australia for life. But now, having reversed his fortunes, he seeks to fulfill his innermost desire. Returning to London under threat of execution, he's quickly embroiled in various entanglements among a handful of chara ...Show more
Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by Peter Carey
$20.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
A foundling trained in the art of thievery, Jack Maggs was betrayed and deported to Australia for life. But now, having reversed his fortunes, he seeks to fulfill his innermost desire. Returning to London under threat of execution, he's quickly embroiled in various entanglements among a handful of chara ...Show more
My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
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Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Reading Level: very good
MY LIFE AS A FAKE is a fantastical gothic tale, in part based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, about a hoax poet who mysteriously materialises and then pursues, taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker. Two-time Booker prize winning author Peter Carey uses the Ern Malley hoax as a springboard, but ...Show more
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
$40.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: good-very good
The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures. This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent--a haven for misfits of bot ...Show more
Oscar and Lucinda: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1989 by Peter Carey
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Peter Carey's novel of the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier is both a moving and beautiful love story and a historical tour de force set in Victorian times. Made for each other, the two are gamblers - one obsessive, the other compulsive - incapable of w ...Show more