The Fat Man in History and Other Stories by Peter Carey - ISBN: 9781760896560
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Bizarre power, chilling what-ifs: Carey’s sharp, unsettling stories explored.

The Fat Man in History and Other Stories

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  • Paperback

    464 pages

  • Release Date

    3 March 2020

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Summary

The Fat Man in History and Other Stories collects Peter Carey’s brilliant, bizarre, funny, and chilling short stories.

The tales from The Fat Man in History explore intriguing “what-if” scenarios. The title story, for instance, imagines a post-Marxist utopia that deems obesity counter-revolutionary and questions how a household of fat men might retaliate.

The stories from War Crimes delve into the nature of power. They examine those who wield…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781760896560
ISBN-10:176089656X
Author:Peter Carey
Publisher:Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:Penguin Random House Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:464
Release Date:3 March 2020
Weight:426g
Dimensions:198mm x 131mm x 35mm
About The Author

Peter Carey

Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, and now lives in New York. He is the author of fourteen novels (including one for children), two volumes of short stories, and two books on travel. Amongst other prizes, Carey has won the Booker Prize twice (for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang), the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize twice (for Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang), and the Miles Franklin Literary Award three times (for Bliss, Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs). He is an officer of the Order of Australia and a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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