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Carey, Peter

 
9780679743323: The Fat Man in History: And Other Stories (Vintage International)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0679743324 ISBN 13: 9780679743323
Verlag: Vintage, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

If, in some post-Marxist utopia, obesity were declared counterrevolutionary, how would a houseful of fat men strike back?  If it were possible to win a new body by lottery, what kind of people would choose ugliness? If two gun-toting thugs decided to take over a business—and run it through sheer terror—how far would their methods take them?
 
These are the questions that Peter Carey, author of The Tax Inspector and Oscar and Lucinda, brilliantly explores in this collection of stories. Exquisitely written and thoroughly envisioned, the tales in The Fat Man in History reach beyond their arresting premises to utter deep and often frightening truths about our brightest and darkest selves.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

PETER CAREY is the author of thirteen previous novels. In addition to the Booker Prize, his honors include the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Born in Australia, he has lived in New York City for more than twenty-five years.

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A landmark in contemporary Australian literature, The Fat Man in History brought early acclaim to Peter Carey for his brilliant and ingenious fiction. These twelve stories introduce visionary landscapes of intense clarity, where the rules of the game are bizarre yet chillingly familiar.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
1993
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679743324
ISBN 13 
9780679743323
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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