Topic: Peter Carey
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Peter Carey's Parrot and Oliver in America was short-listed for the 2010 National Book Award in the US and for the Man Booker Prize in the UK. Peter Carey, originally from Australia, is the only novelist to be nominated for Man ...
Hal Porter had already begun to establish himself as one of the more interesting short-story writers. A Book for the World's Last Reader (1999), for example-were increasingly concerned with the dominant, two-pronged problem in late 20th-century Australia: With An Imaginary Life ...
The Adventure of Black Peter is a story in the Return of Sherlock Holmes collection by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote fifty-six short Sherlock Holmes stories in total and four full length novels featuring the popular detective. A man named Captain ...
Peter Carey specialises in creating the oddball characters and uncompromising plots, and this story of 1970s naivete and innocence is no exception. Dial is a young academic who reluctantly finds herself playing the role of mother to a young boy she doesn ...
British author Howard Jacobson was named the surprise winner of this year's prestigious Booker Prize for literature for his comic novel about love, loss and Jewishness.Jacobson's work "The Finkler Question" defied the odds Tuesday to pick up the award ...
Though no castle graces the hill of Tara, some visitors to Ireland claim to feel the presence of the spirits of the long-dead High Kings who once ruled these Emerald Isles. From the safety of distance, across the fields, In 1536, Richard ...
British author Howard Jacobson was Tuesday named the surprise winner of this year's prestigious Booker Prize for literature for his comic novel about love, loss and Jewishness.Jacobson's work "The Finkler Question" defied the odds to pick up the award ...
There is no tyranny in America.' Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, this new novel by twice Booker prize winner Peter Carey charts the emergence of two disparate men, master and servant, from the darkness of revolutionary Paris to the emerging dawn ...
An experimental novel about a young radio addict in the early 20th century is favourite to win the prestigious Booker Prize for literature Tuesday, bookmakers in Britain said.Tom McCarthy's "C" tells the story of Serge and is partly inspired by ...
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National Book Awards
FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2010 file photo, author Peter Carey poses ...AP News - -
Britain Booker Prize Shortlist
Judges, from left, Rosie Blau, Literary Editor of the Financial Times, Frances ...AP News - -
Labor Board Gridlock
National Labor Relations Board Chairman Wilma B. Liebman and Peter Carey Schaumber ...AP News -
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Interview with Peter Carey, author of ...
From the two-time Booker Prizewinning author: an irrepressibly funny new ...2009-10-02 -
Peter Carey at the NYS Writers ...
An excerpt from the Q & A that followed the appearance ...2009-04-09 -
Peter Carey Interview, Pt. 1
An interview with Australian author Peter Carey.2008-01-02
