The Fat Man in History (Paperback, Main)

Ten dazzling short stories by the Booker prize-winning Australian author of Oscar and Lucinda and Illywhacker. With strong language and haunting vision the stories are set in the near-future and are alternatively bizarre and funny. Includes 'The Cars That Ate Paris', which was later made into a feature film by Oscar-nominated director Peter Weir. (Kirkus UK)

The stories in Peter Carey's collection are bizarre, funny and chilling. Their landscape is exotic and surreal, an ominous near-future that has the distinct feel of contemporary life. Carey's narratives are an exhilarating blend of fable, fantasy and allegory in which, as in dreams, something odd and menacing takes control. Here are societies in which people gamble for new bodies in a genetic lottery or watch apprehensively as first buildings, then parts of the landscape, and eventually their neighbours, begin to dematerialise and vanish. Here is what happens when a miniature replica of a small town and its inhabitants assumes a more compelling reality than its original or when a group of fat men, ostracised by a revolutionary government, plot its overthrow.

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2002
Authors:	Peter Carey
Dimensions:	199 x 129 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	192
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-14438-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
LSN:	0-571-14438-1
Barcode:	9780571144389

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