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    "If you are MAKING ART," says a character in Peter Carey's magnificent new novel [Theft: A Love Story] "the labour never ends, no peace, no Sabbath, just eternal churning and cursing and worrying and fretting."

    Carey is an artist who churns and curses and worries and frets. His novels roil, threatening at any moment to erupt impolitely all over the carpet. He is formally ostentatious, often inventing fabulist characters with equally fabulist voices and generally remaining allergic to adjective-free naturalism. Perhaps this is why, despite being one of the world's leading novelists, he is more respected than loved. Too emotionally dangerous to be fully embraced by doe-eyed lovers of The Time Traveler's Wife, too much fun to be taken entirely seriously by the dour acolytes of JM Coetzee (the contemporary whose career his most resembles), Carey ploughs his own dogged, compelling, fantastical furrow. For these reasons alone - that he frightens those who want their

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    Peter Carey

    Peter Carey was born in Australia in 1943. He was educated at the local state school until the age of eleven and then became a boarder at Geelong Grammar School. He was a student there between 1954 and 1960. In 1961 he studied science for a single, unsuccessful year at Monash University. He was then employed by an advertising agency where he began to receive his literary education, meeting referens till den amerikanska författaren william faulkner, Joyce, Kerouac and other writers he had previously been unaware of. For the next thirteen years he wrote fiction at night and weekends, working in many advertising agencies in Melbourne, London and Sydney. After four novels had been written and rejected, The Fat Man in History — a short story collection — was published in 1974.  Between 1976 and 1990, he was able to pursue literature obsessively. It was during this period that he wrote War Crimes, Bliss, Illywhacker, Oscar and Lucinda. Illywhacker was short listed for the Booker Prize. Oscar and Lucinda won it.

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    Peter Carey

    True History of the Kelly Gang
    3.83 avg rating — 23,501 ratings — published 2000 — 121 editions
    Oscar and Lucinda
    3.73 avg rating — 21,488 ratings — published 1988 — 57 editions
    Parrot and Olivier in America
    3.44 avg rating — 7,558 ratings — published 2009 — 62 editions
    Jack Maggs
    3.69 avg rating — 4,371 ratings — published 1997 — 72 editions
    Bliss
    3.76 avg rating — 3,524 ratings — published 1981 — 43 editions
    A Long Way From Home
    3.50 avg rating — 3,668 ratings — published 2017 — 37 editions
    The Chemistry of Tears
    2.96 avg rating — 4,185 ratings — published 2012 — 70 editions
    Theft: A Love Story
    3.43 avg rating — 3,574 ratings — published 2006 — 63 editions
    My Life as a Fake
    3.39 avg rating — 3,563 ratings — published 2003 — 30 editions