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30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account by Peter Carey
35.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: The Writer and the City | Reading Level: very good
After living in New York for ten years novelist Peter Carey returned home to Sydney with the idea of capturing its ebullient character via the four elements. Here, he draws the reader into a journey of discovery and re-discovery. It offers you a private glimpse of Sydney and what lies behind the glitter ...Show more
A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal car race around the continent, over roads no car can ever quite survive. Set during the 1950s in the dying embers of the British Empire, A Long Way fr ...Show more
Amnesia by Peter Carey
40.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In AmnesiaPeter Carey, 'the greatest Australian writer' (Richard Flanagan), asks the most vital question of the past seventy years- Has America taken us over? When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse- an Amer ...Show more
Amnesia by Peter Carey
30.00 NZD
Category: Thriller
In AmnesiaPeter Carey, 'the greatest Australian writer' (Richard Flanagan), asks the most vital question of the past seventy years- Has America taken us over?When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse- an Ameri ...Show more
Bliss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1981 by Peter Carey
24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Bliss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1981 by Peter Carey
27.99 NZD
32.99 (15% off)
Category: Fiction
Bliss is a masterpiece of illusion that marked Peter Carey's brilliant debut as a novelist, and was later made into an award-winning film. The dilemma of Harry Joy is both funny and terrifying, for Harry wakes up in Hell, tortured by those he loves, and by the dreams and nightmares he once created for p ...Show more
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
35.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1972 and Ché, a precocious seven - almost - eight-year-old boy, leads a rather bourgeois life on Park Avenue with his eccentric grandmother. His parents are young radicals in hiding from the FBI – he has never even met his father and he last saw his mother at the age of two. Ché is ecstatic when a ...Show more
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
27.99 NZD
36.99 (24% off)
Category: General Fiction
His Illegal Self is the story of Che. Raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, he is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties. Yearning for his famous Outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long-haired t ...Show more
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
27.99 NZD
32.99 (15% off)
Category: General Fiction
In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarc ...Show more
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Herbert Badgery is vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch. He might very well be the embodiment of Australia's national character, especially in its fondness for tall stories and questionable history.As this charming scoundrel traverses the continent and a century's wort ...Show more