Three new pieces are included in this collection of the stories
from Carey's two previous volumes, The Fat Man in History and War
Crimes. It is a joy to have such a dizzying selection of his work
between two covers: the dangerous ambitions of a respectable lover
in 'A Million Dollars Worth of Amphetamines'; the
extraterrestrial-nightmare scenario that begins so innocently in
'Exotic Pleasures'; the melancholy surrealism of 'Conversations
with Unicorns'. Outlandish, disturbing and sometimes savagely
funny. (Kirkus UK)
Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included
the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History
of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories
and this volume collects together all the stories from The Fat Man
in History and War Crimes as well as three other stories not
previously published in book form. The stories, persuasive and
precisely crafted, reveal Carey to be a moralist with a sense of
humour, a surrealist interested in naturalism and an urban poet
delighting in paradox.
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