Peter Carey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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A fictionalized account of the history of the Kelly gang, which traces the adventures of Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.
"'I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in Hell if I speak false.' In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks...
2) Amnesia
Author
Language
English
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Description
Writing the biography of a cyber criminal who released a virus into Australia's prison system and allowed hundreds of asylum seekers and prisoners to escape, left-wing journalist Felix Moore struggles to convey the hacker's intentions as a political protest against Australia's relationship with the United States. Includes reading-group guide.
"From the two-time Booker Prize winner: a masterful, exceedingly timely new novel--at once dark, suspenseful,...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Parrot and Olivier in America has been shortlisted for the 2010 Man Booker Prize.
From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America.
Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville—is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer....
From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America.
Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville—is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer....
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 396
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A hardcover omnibus volume containing the two novels by Peter Carey that have won the Booker Prize: Oscar and Lucinda (first published by Harper & Row in 1988) and True History of the Kelly Gang (first published by Knopf in 2000). With an introduction byPaul Giles and chronology of author's life and times"--
"Oscar and Lucinda is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century Australia. Oscar, a nervous Anglican minister who...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country-continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000 mile race, the Redex Trial. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in south eastern Australia. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the ancient continent,...