It was during this period that he wrote War Crimes, Bliss, Illywhacker, Oscar and Lucinda. Thus between 19, he was able to pursue literature obsessively.
This slim book made him an overnight success.įrom 1976 Carey worked one week a month for Grey Advertising, then, in 1981 he established a small business where his generous partner required him to work only two afternoons a week. He was nineteen.įor the next thirteen years he wrote fiction at night and weekends, working in many advertising agencies in Melbourne, London and Sydney.Īfter four novels had been written and rejected The Fat Man in History - a short story collection - was published in 1974. He was then employed by an advertising agency where he began to receive his literary education, meeting Faulkner, Joyce, Kerouac and other writers he had previously been unaware of. In 1961 he studied science for a single unsuccessful year at Monash University.
He was a student there between 19 - after Rupert Murdoch had graduated and before Prince Charles arrived. He was educated at the local state school until the age of eleven and then became a boarder at Geelong Grammar School. Peter Carey was born in Australia in 1943.
Told through the alternating points of view of the brothers≻utchers urbane, intelligent, caustic observations contrasting with Hughs bizarre, frequently poetic, utterly unique voice Theft reminds us once again of Peter Careys remarkable gift for creating indelible, fascinating characters and a narrative as gripping as it is deliriously surprising.Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. And she sets in motion a chain of events that could be the makingor the ruinof them all. Shes sweet to Hugh and falls in love with Butcher, and they reciprocate in kind. Beautiful, smart, and ambitious, shes also the daughter-in-law of the late great painter Jacques Liebovitz, one of Butchers earliest influences. Alone together theyve forged a delicate and shifting equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when a mysterious young woman named Marlene walks out of a rainstorm and into their lives on three-inch Manolo Blahnik heels. "Butcher"≻oone is an ex"really famous" painter: opinionated, furious, brilliant, and now reduced to living in the remote country house of his biggest collector and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh, a damaged man of imposing physicality and childlike emotional volatility. From the two-time Booker Prizewinning 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.
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