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Exotic Pleasures by Peter Carey
$6.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good-very good
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Che is a precocious young boy raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents--radical 1960s activists who are now among the FBI's most wanted--he's denied all access to television and the news. But he takes hope from his long-haired teenage neighbor, who ...Show more
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good-near fine
Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, precocious son of radical Harvard students in the sixties. Yearning for his famous Outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long haired teenage neighbour who predicts They will come for you, man. ...Show more
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Carey can spin a yarn with the best of them . . . Illywhacker is a big, garrulous, funny novel, touching, farcical and passionately bad-tempered."--Howard Jacobson, New York Times An illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of this dazzling comic novel, may ...Show more
Illywhacker by Peter Carey
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Carey can spin a yarn with the best of them . . . Illywhacker is a big, garrulous, funny novel, touching, farcical and passionately bad-tempered.--Howard Jacobson, New York Times An illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of this dazzling comic novel, may be ...Show more
Jack Maggs: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1998 by Peter Carey
$15.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
A foundling trained in the art of thievery, Jack Maggs was betrayed and deported to Australia for life. But now, having reversed his fortunes, he seeks to fulfill his innermost desire. Returning to London under threat of execution, he's quickly embroiled in various entanglements among a handful of chara ...Show more
My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
MY LIFE AS A FAKE is a fantastical gothic tale, in part based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, about a hoax poet who mysteriously materialises and then pursues, taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker. Two-time Booker prize winning author Peter Carey uses the Ern Malley hoax as a springboard, but ...Show more
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
$20.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The Booker Prize-winning novel--now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures. This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent--a haven for misfits of bot ...Show more
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
$25.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: Adult
Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in re ...Show more
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Olivier is a young aristocrat, one of an endangered species born in France just after the Revolution. Parrot, the son of an itinerant English printer, wanted to be an artist but has ended up in middle age as a servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World - ostensibly to study its prisons, but in re ...Show more