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Fat Man in History
One of Australia's most highly regarded novelists...accomplished, surehanded." -- Newsday 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...
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The Fat Man In History (and Other Stories) (reprint) (paperback) - By Peter Carey
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One of our most acclaimed authors, two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey’s novels temper feats of imagination and language with a solid grounding in history and literature. Through his novels, many of which re-imagine the peopling and history of his native Australia, Carey has garnered renown as a novelist who can write about important subjects in a voice both readable and distinctly challenging.
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Books. The Fat Man in History
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First American edition. Edges of the boards very slightly darkened still easily fine in fine dustwrapper with one tiny tear on the rear panel. Signed by the author.
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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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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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Bookseller Inventory #: 3533. Format/binding: Hardcover. Book condition: Near Fine. Jacket condition: Near Fine. Edition: First Edition. Binding: Hardcover. Publisher: UQP. Place: St Lucia. Date published: 1974. Pages: 141. Keywords: Peter Carey. Jeffrey Smart.
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From The Mysterious Ills That Felled Ancient Man To The Devastation Wrought By Aids To The Emergence Of Ebola Fever, This Title Is An Enlightening And Frightening Look At The Dance With Death That Has Engaged Humankind Throughout History. - By Arno Karlen - Paperback
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Carey, Peter. The Fat Man In History. New York. 1980. Random House. 1st American Edition. Very Good In Dustjacket. keywords: Literature Australia. inventory # 1999
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Exploring a century and a haft of marriage through stories of struggle and conflict mined from case records, Hartog shatters the myth of a golden age of stable marriage. He describes the myriad ways the law shaped and defined marital relations and spousal identities, and how individuals manipulated and reshaped the rules of the American states to fit their needs. We witness a compelling cast of characters: wives who attempted to leave abusive husbands, women who manipulated their marital status for...
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Smithmark | NY, NY | 1993 | 1st U.S. edition | HB | Illus w/diagrams & photos | Fine | w/fine dj, 11x14 inches, 240pp | Foreword by U.S. astronaut Gene Cernan. Wonderful oversized coffee table book on the history of manned spaceflight from Kepler through Gagarin, Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, lunar and solar system probes, Skylab, ASTP, shuttle, Salyut, Challenger accident, Mir and the future. Virtually 2 or 3 photos per page many of them color, plus a strong text.
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They come. Over 40,000 of them in 1993-from all over the world to see far more than the most thrilling bikesport anywhere. Eighty-six years after the first TT took place in the Isle of Man, there seems no limit to the number of fans who want to be part of one. Watch Mike the Bike's TT record fly out the window as Joey Dunlop score his 15th win!
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1992; 148 illustrated pp. + 22 plates; Art History Series
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