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ISBN: 9780571279975 - The Chemistry of Tears

The Chemistry of Tears
Peter Carey

ISBN10: 057127997X ISBN13: 9780571279975
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 05 Apr 2012
It's London 2010, Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the unexpected death of her colleague and lover of thirteen years. As the mistress of a married man she has to grieve in private. One other person knows their... More

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ISBN: 9780571253326 - Parrot and Olivier in America

Parrot and Olivier in America
Peter Carey

ISBN10: 0571253326 ISBN13: 9780571253326
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Feb 2011
Olivier is a French aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the 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... More

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Jack Maggs
Peter Carey

ISBN10: 0571270174 ISBN13: 9780571270170
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Feb 2011
Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush town house in Great Queen Street? More

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ISBN: 9780571270156 - True History of the Kelly Gang

True History of the Kelly Gang
Peter Carey

ISBN10: 0571270158 ISBN13: 9780571270156
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Feb 2011
In 1878 Francis Harty, a poor farmer, said, 'Ned Kelly is the best bloody man that has ever been in Benalla, I would fight up to my knees in blood for him - I have known him for years, I would take his word sooner than another man's oath'. More

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Oscar and Lucinda
Peter Carey

ISBN10: 0571270166 ISBN13: 9780571270163
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Feb 2011
Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be forever changed. Oscar Hopkins... More

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Illywhacker
Peter Carey

ISBN10: 0571275591 ISBN13: 9780571275595
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Edition: Secrets and Lies ed.
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Jul 2011
Illywhacker is a dazzling comic narrative, from the lips of the 109-year-old Herbert Badgery, the 'illywhacker' or confidence trickster of the title. Illywhacker is a dazzling comic narrative, from the lips of the 109-year-old Herbert Badgery... More

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His Illegal Self
Peter Carey

ISBN10: 0571231543 ISBN13: 9780571231546
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Mar 2009
Raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, Che, the precocious son of 60s radicals, just wants to see his parents. But first he must become an outlaw himself, fleeing to a hippy commune in the jungle of tropical Queensland... More

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Theft
Peter Carey

ISBN10: 0571231500 ISBN13: 9780571231508
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Jun 2007
Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, this work presents an exploration of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption. It is narrated by the twin voices of the artist, Butcher Bones, and his 'damaged two-hundred-and... More

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Bliss
Peter Carey

ISBN10: 0571225918 ISBN13: 9780571225910
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Aug 2004
Peter Carey's novel is a fast-moving extravaganza, both funny and gripping, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell. More

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My Life as a Fake
Peter Carey

ISBN10: 057121620X ISBN13: 9780571216208
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Jun 2004
In Melbourne in the late 1940s, a young conservative poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. But over the ensuing years, his audacious act of literary ventriloquism takes on a much... More

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