Collected Stories

Peter Carey

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Penguin Random House Australia
22 April 2015

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories; Australian Fiction

Collected Stories combines Peter Carey's bizarre, brilliant, chilling short stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes, plus three not in either.

Those from Fat Man posit what-ifs, with the title story wondering how, were some post-Marxist utopia to declare obesity counter-revolutionary, a household of fat men would strike back. Those from War Crimes are all in one way or another about power - those who wield it, those who want it, and those who recall only its dazzling exhilaration and degradation.

'Impressive and entertaining.

Each story ends on a melancholy but powerful note, like the sudden discharge of electrical energy which illuminates all that it touches.'

Peter Ackroyd, Sunday Times

'Reading his stories is like being shot by a firing squad of angels.'

Jill Neville, Sydney Morning Herald

'His imagination is soaring, his style beautifully disciplined, his eye for the truth unblinking.'

Geoffrey Dutton, The Bulletin

'Peter Carey is one of the great storytellers of our time, the kind who makes you take the telephone off the hook, forget the television and ignore the doorbell.' London Evening Standard

'Carey's imagination is fired with genius.' Robert Adamson, The Australian

'A commanding writer with a laser eye for detail and luxuriant narrative gifts.' Wall Street Journal

By: Peter Carey
Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 34mm
Weight: 424g
ISBN: 9780143571254
ISBN 10: 0143571257
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 22 April 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Carey is a zoologist who has made more than 80 trips to Antarctica, including research expeditions with the New Zealand Antarctic Programme and the Australian National Antarctic research expedition. He has also worked as a lecturer and expedition leader on many Antarctic cruise ships. Peter has conducted research on penguin behaviour, sea-bird ecology, fish physiology and the social behaviour of seals. He visits Antarctica every summer and is working to ecologically restore a group of small islands in the Falklands Archipelago. As director of the conservation organisation SAFER (Subantarctic Foundation for Ecosystems Research), he is actively involved in improving the wildlife habitat of these islands. http-//www.awapress.com/authors-Peter-Carey