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Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America. When Olivier s ...Show more
The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Volume Four 1921-1940 by Carey, Peter
$145.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: Near Fine
The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Peter Carey's The Tax Inspector is a wickedly funny satire on modern life and families. The Catchprices may be the most spectacularly contentious family since Dostoevsky's Karamozovs. Granny Catchprice runs her family business, and her family, with senility, cunning, and a handbag full of explosives. Si ...Show more
The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
$6.00 NZD
Category: Vintage Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silence...' To the authorities in pursuit of him, outlaw Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow ordinary Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling act of ventriloquis ...Show more
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
From a writer whom Thomas Keneally calls "one of the great figures on the cusp of the millennium" comes a novel that conjures an entire world that suggests our own, but tilted on its axis--a world whose most powerful country, Voorstand, dominates its neighbors with ruthless espionage and its mesmerizing ...Show more
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Humorous, allegorical novel centred on the life of Tristan Smith. Set in the mythical nations of Voorstand and Efica, it follows the adventures of Tristan, who is doomed never to be taller than three foot six. Includes maps, footnotes and glossary. Author's other novels include 'Bliss', 'Illywacker', an ...Show more
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
: I don't know if my story is grand enough to be a tragedy, although a lot of shitty stuff did happen. It is certainly a love story but that did not begin until midway through the shitty stuff, by which time I had not only lost my 8-year-old son, but also my house and studio in Sydney where I had once b ...Show more
True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silence...'To the authorities in pursuit of him, outlaw Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow ordinary Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In a dazzling act of ventriloquism ...Show more