"childhood is repeatedly proved to have contained great affection, friends, fun and even light reading."" ""Source: Library of Congress"" ""Father and Son"" partially inspired the 1988 novel ""Oscar and Lucinda"" by Peter Carey, that won the Booker Prize the same year, and the 1989 Miles Franklin Award. The book was the inspiration for Dennis Potter's 1976 television drama ""Where Adam Stood"", starring Alan Badel as Philip Gosse. Father and Son (book) Father and Son (1907) is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled ""a study of two temperaments."" Edmund had previously published a biography of his"
"Illywhacker Illywhacker is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was published in 1985 to commercial and critical success, winning a number of awards and being short-listed for the Booker Prize. Considered metafiction or magical realism, the novel is narrated by liar, trickster, and confidence man Herbert Badgery, the ""illywhacker"" of the title, and tells the story of his picaresque life in Australia between 1919 and the 1980s. The novel is related in broad chronological order by the main protagonist, Herbert Badgery, but with frequent digressions that relate the circumstances and life history of Badgery himself, and of many"
"of the best kind of Australian."" Illywhacker Illywhacker is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was published in 1985 to commercial and critical success, winning a number of awards and being short-listed for the Booker Prize. Considered metafiction or magical realism, the novel is narrated by liar, trickster, and confidence man Herbert Badgery, the ""illywhacker"" of the title, and tells the story of his picaresque life in Australia between 1919 and the 1980s. The novel is related in broad chronological order by the main protagonist, Herbert Badgery, but with frequent digressions that relate the circumstances and life history"
"Bliss (novel) Bliss is the first novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. Published in 1981, the book won that year's Miles Franklin Award. Written as a dark, comic fable, the story concerns an advertising executive, Harry Joy, who briefly 'dies' of a heart attack. On being resuscitated, he realizes that the life he has previously drifted amiably through is in fact Hell – literally so to Harry. His wife is unfaithful, while his son is selling drugs, and his daughter is a communist selling herself to buy them. In one of the novel's more shocking scenes, glimpsed through a window,"
"won in (1973). Other noteworthy Australian writers at the end of this period are poet Les Murray, and novelist Peter Carey (born 1943), who is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice. Major Canadian novelists include Carol Shields, Lawrence Hill, Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro. Carol Shields novel ""The Stone Diaries"" won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and another novel, ""Larry's Party"", won the Orange Prize in 1998. Lawrence Hill's ""Book of Negroes"" won the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Overall Best Book Award, while Alice Munro became the first Canadian to win the Nobel"
"of Noor. After centuries-long exile, the dragons are uneasy and about to return. A strange wind has been blowing, sweeping children up into the sky. Among the missing is Miles's and Hanna's younger brother. They go after him and find themselves fighting alongside the dragons in a life- altering revolution. Janet Lee Carey Janet Lee Carey (born January 11, 1954) is an American college professor who writes fantasy fiction for children and young adults. Her novels ""The Dragons of Noor"" (2010) won a Teens Read Too Gold Star Award for Excellence, ""Dragon's Keep"" (2007) won an ALA Best Books for"
"in March 2010 at the Sydney Opera House, directed by Neil Armfield, conducted by Elgar Howarth, and featuring Peter Coleman-Wright as Harry Joy. Tom Wright adapted in 2018 a stage version for the Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, and the Belvoir, Sydney. Bliss (novel) Bliss is the first novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. Published in 1981, the book won that year's Miles Franklin Award. Written as a dark, comic fable, the story concerns an advertising executive, Harry Joy, who briefly 'dies' of a heart attack. On being resuscitated, he realizes that the life he has previously drifted amiably through is in"
"(1992). Seventeen winners of the Booker Prize have taken part: Margaret Atwood (2000), Julian Barnes (2011), A.S. Byatt (1990), Peter Carey (1988) & (2001), Kiran Desai (2006), Roddy Doyle (1993), Kazuo Ishiguro (1989), Howard Jacobson (2010), Thomas Keneally (1982), Penelope Lively (1987), Ian McEwan (1998), Yann Martel (2002), V. S. Naipaul (1971), Ben Okri (1991), Michael Ondaatje (1992), Arundhati Roy (1997), and Salman Rushdie (1981). Seven Whitbread (now called Costa) Book of the Year Award winners have taken part: Peter Ackroyd (1985), William Boyd (1981), Kazuo Ishiguro (1989), Andrea Levy (2004), David Lodge (1980), Philip Pullman (2006) and Colm Tóibín"
"His Illegal Self His Illegal Self is a 2008 novel by Australian author Peter Carey. It was shortlisted for the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and longlisted for the 2010 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The novel is set in 1972, and the main character Che Selkirk is being brought up in New York by his grandmother. On a rare excursion to the city from his isolated home on Kenoza Lake in upstate New York, Che meets a woman who he believes is his mother. The woman, Dial, attempts to arrange a meeting between Che and his mother but this"
"Janet Lee Carey Janet Lee Carey (born January 11, 1954) is an American college professor who writes fantasy fiction for children and young adults. Her novels ""The Dragons of Noor"" (2010) won a Teens Read Too Gold Star Award for Excellence, ""Dragon's Keep"" (2007) won an ALA Best Books for Young adults, and ""Wenny Has Wings"" (2002) won the Mark Twain Award (2005). Carey was born in New York and was raised in Mill Valley, California. Carey moved to Seattle, Washington to be closer to her mother and stepfather, where she currently lives at Seattle, Washington. Carey is a very"
"was drawn into the Second World War, the book was described by the author as ""the prism"" through which he would approach life. Carew wrote novels, short stories, plays, memoirs and other non-fiction, as well as children's stories and books, but he remains best known for his first novel, ""Black Midas"" (1958). His many other works include ""The Wild Coast"", ""The Last Barbarian,"" ""Moscow Is Not My Mecca"" (US edition, ""Green Winter"", 1965), ""Fulcrums of Change"" (1988), ""Ghosts in Our Blood: With Malcolm X in Africa, England and the Caribbean"" (1994), and ""The Guyanese Wanderer"" (Sarabande Books, 2007). He wrote"
"Mother Carey's Chickens (novel) Mother Carey's Chickens is a novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin published in 1911 by Houghton Mifflin. The book tells the story of a poor but happy family of four children who, in spite of being fatherless, make the lives of others better. Their home life becomes complicated when Julia, a snobbish cousin, comes to live with them. The Carey children suffer many disappointments (Gilbert must forgo college, for example), but Julia is transformed when she realizes happiness has little to do with wealth. The story was dramatized in 1917, and later adapted to film. The 1938"
"wa Thiong'o who has written novels, plays and short stories in English. Poet Derek Walcott, from Saint Lucia in the Caribbean, was another Nobel Prize winner in 1992. An Australian Patrick White, a major novelist in this period, whose first work was published in 1939, won in 1973. Other noteworthy Australian writers at the end of this period are poet Les Murray, and novelist Peter Carey, who is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice. Due to their shared constitutional histories, several countries in the Commonwealth have similar legal and political systems. The Commonwealth requires"
"respectively. The winner, as chosen by a public vote, was Salman Rushdie's ""Midnight's Children"", and was announced on July 10 at the London Literature Festival. ""Midnight's Children"" not only won the 1981 Booker, but also the special 1993 Booker of Bookers prize, which commemorated the award's 25th anniversary. The shortlisted titles were: The Best of the Booker The Best of the Booker is a special prize awarded in commemoration of the Booker Prize's 40th anniversary. Eligible books included the 41 winners of the Booker Prize since its inception in 1969. The six shortlisted titles were announced on 12 May 2008"
"than the Booker Prize. In 1989, controversy erupted when the judges first awarded the Best Novel prize to Alexander Stuart's ""The War Zone"", then withdrew the prize prior to the ceremony amid acrimony among the judges, ultimately awarding it to Lindsay Clarke's ""The Chymical Wedding"". Authors need not be British or Irish but they must have been resident in the UK or Ireland for at least six months in each of the previous three years. There are five book award categories, without change since the Poetry Award was introduced in 1985, although the children's category has been termed ""children's novel"""
"protagonist with Philip Carey of Somerset Maugham's ""Of Human Bondage"". ""Philip Carey's struggle toward maturity is painfully messy…unconsciously he knows what he needs: connection to and then freedom from parental authority so that he can determine his own goals in life. [Michael Bishop's] Danny Boles, with similar needs, is certain that he already has found something to believe in: baseball."" Sanders concludes ""Insofar as the characters of ""Brittle Innings"" learn to see life's vivid extremes and as they struggle to see more, they demonstrate that love can sometimes lead not to bondage but freedom."" The novel won the Locus Award"
"With pieces published in the ""Financial Times"" and ""Money"", he covered the stock market and investment, interviewing, amongst others, Donald Trump. His review of previous Booker Prize winner Peter Carey's book, ""Oscar and Lucinda"", appeared in ""The Second Circle"", an online literary review. He was subsequently hired by ""TIME"", where he remained a South Asia correspondent for three years before going freelance. During this freelance period, he wrote ""The White Tiger"". Aravind Adiga now lives in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Aravind Adiga's debut novel, ""The White Tiger"", won the 2008 Booker Prize. He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the"
"True History of the Kelly Gang True History of the Kelly Gang is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey, based loosely on the history of the Kelly Gang. It was first published in Brisbane by the University of Queensland Press in 2000. It won the 2001 Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the same year. Despite its title, the book is fiction and a variation on the Ned Kelly story. In an effort to attract foreign readers to the story, the book's American publisher, Alfred Knopf, heralded the book as a ""Great American Novel"", even though the"
"The Chemistry of Tears The Chemistry of Tears is a 2012 novel by Australian author Peter Carey. Catherine Gehrig is a middle-aged horologist working in ""the Georgian halls"" of the Swinburne Museum, London SW1. For the last 13 years she has been in love with her married colleague, Matthew Tindall, and when he dies suddenly she is distraught. Her boss Eric Croft moves her to the museum annexe in Olympia and gives her a recent acquisition to assemble: a complex mechanical toy that she first thinks might be a monkey, then decides is a duck. Croft's hope is that Catherine"
"Kurzel serving as director. The cast includes George MacKay as Ned Kelly, Russell Crowe as Harry Power, and Essie Davis, Travis Fimmel, Sean Keenan, Dacre Montgomery, Thomasin McKenzie, and Earl Cave (son of singer Nick Cave) in unspecified roles True History of the Kelly Gang True History of the Kelly Gang is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey, based loosely on the history of the Kelly Gang. It was first published in Brisbane by the University of Queensland Press in 2000. It won the 2001 Booker Prize and the Commonwealth Writers Prize in the same year. Despite its title,"
"Peter Carey (historian) Peter (P.B.R.) Carey (born 30 April 1948 in Rangoon) is a British historian and author who specialises in the modern history of Indonesia, Java in particular, and has also written on East Timor (Timor-Leste) and Burma (Myanmar). He was the Laithwaite fellow of Modern History at Trinity College, Oxford, from 1979 to 2008. His major early work concentrated on the history of Diponegoro, the British in Java, 1811–16 and the Java War (1825–30), on which he has published extensively. His major biography of Diponegoro, ""The Power of Prophecy"", appeared in 2007, and a succinct version, ""Destiny; The"
"following dedication: ""For Frances Coady"" The Chemistry of Tears The Chemistry of Tears is a 2012 novel by Australian author Peter Carey. Catherine Gehrig is a middle-aged horologist working in ""the Georgian halls"" of the Swinburne Museum, London SW1. For the last 13 years she has been in love with her married colleague, Matthew Tindall, and when he dies suddenly she is distraught. Her boss Eric Croft moves her to the museum annexe in Olympia and gives her a recent acquisition to assemble: a complex mechanical toy that she first thinks might be a monkey, then decides is a duck."
"John Carey (critic) John Carey, (born 5 April 1934) is a British literary critic, and post-retirement (2002) emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He is known for his anti-elitist views on high culture, as expounded in several books. He has twice chaired the Booker Prize committee, in 1982 and 2004, and chaired the judging panel for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005. He was born in Barnes, London, and educated at Richmond and East Sheen Boys' Grammar School, winning an Open Scholarship to St John's College, Oxford. He has held posts in a"
"prize, and a winner is chosen. Unlike the real Man Booker (1969 through 2014), writers from outside the Commonwealth are also considered. In 2008, the winner for 1948 was Alan Paton's ""Cry, the Beloved Country"", beating Norman Mailer's ""The Naked and the Dead"", Graham Greene's ""The Heart of the Matter"" and Evelyn Waugh's ""The Loved One"". In 2015, the winner for 1915 was Ford Madox Ford's ""The Good Soldier"", beating ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" (John Buchan), ""Of Human Bondage"" (W. Somerset Maugham), ""Psmith, Journalist"" (P. G. Wodehouse) and ""The Voyage Out"" (Virginia Woolf). Booker Prize The Man Booker Prize for Fiction"
"Parrot and Olivier in America Parrot and Olivier in America is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was on the shortlist of six books for the 2010 Man Booker Prize. It was also a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award. The book, according to its publisher, is ""an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville"", and focuses on Tocqueville's trips to the United States. The novel mimic's this life with the fictional character, Olivier de Garmont, to the life of Tocqueville, to help the reader explore Tocqueville's life. The titular ""Parrot"" is Garmont's secretary, which New"
"""distinguished service to literature as a novelist, through international promotion of the Australian identity, as a mentor to emerging writers."" And in 2014, Carey was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) by Sydney University. Carey has won numerous literary awards, including: Stories from Carey's first two collections have been repackaged in ""The Fat Man in History and Other Stories"" (1980), ""Exotic Pleasures"" (1990), and ""Collected Stories"" (1994); the last also includes three previously uncollected stories: ""Joe"" (""Australian New Writing"", 1973), ""A Million Dollars Worth of Amphetamines"" (""Nation Review"", 1975), and ""Concerning the Greek Tyrant"" (""The Tabloid Story Pocket"
"William Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"", about Prospero's daughter Miranda and her friendship with the strange, feral boy Caliban. Jacqueline Carey Jacqueline A. Carey (born October 9, 1964) is an American writer, primarily of fantasy fiction. Carey was born in Highland Park, Illinois, and attended Lake Forest College, both in the northern suburbs of Chicago. She received B.A. degrees in psychology and English literature in 1986. During college she spent 6 months working in a London bookstore as part of a work exchange program, where she decided to write professionally. After returning she started her writing career while working at the art"
"for her 1901 novel ""My Brilliant Career"", is the Miles Franklin Award, which is ""presented each year to a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases"". Patrick White won the inaugural award for ""Voss"" in 1957; he went on to win the 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature. Peter Carey, Thomas Keneally and Richard Flanagan are recipients of the Man Booker Prize. Other acclaimed Australian authors include Colleen McCullough, Nevil Shute, Tim Winton, Ruth Park and Morris West. Helen Garner's 1977 novel ""Monkey Grip"" is widely considered one of Australia's first"
"number of Oxford colleges, and is an emeritus fellow of Merton, where he became a Professor in 1975, retiring in 2002. He has twice chaired the Booker Prize committee, in 1982 and 2004, and chaired the judging panel for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005. He is chief book reviewer for the London ""Sunday Times"" and appears in radio and TV programmes including ""Saturday Review"" and ""Newsnight Review"". He is known for his anti-elitist views on high culture, as expressed for example in his book ""What Good Are the Arts?"" (2005). Carey's 1992 book ""The Intellectuals and the"
"night the overall prize was awarded I was certain I was only there to make up the numbers."" The Comforts of Madness (novel) The Comforts of Madness is the debut novel of English author Paul Sayer. It won the 1988 Whitbread Award for both Best First Novel, and Book of the Year. Written while the author was working as a psychiatric nurse in Clifton Hospital in York, and drawing on his own experiences it is a first-person account of a speechless, catatonic patient in a hospital therapy unit. In an interview Sayer explains that this was the third novel he"
"""The Cry of the Icemark"" by Stuart Hill 2006 – ""The Diamond of Drury Lane"" by Julia Golding 2007 – ""Darkside"" by Tom Becker 2008 – ""Ways to Live Forever"" by Sally Nicholls 2009 – ""13 Treasures"" by Michelle Harrison 2010 – ""The Great Hamster Massacre"" by Katie Davies 2011 – ""Artichoke Hearts"" by Sita Brahmachari For 2011, publications the Prize was divided into three categories with separate shortlists, announced in February 2012. 2012 – ""The Pirates Next Door"" by Jonny Duddle (Overall and Picture Book) 2013 – ""Ketchup Clouds"" by Annabel Pitcher (Overall and Teen) 2014 — ""Rooftoppers"" by"
"he has a reputation for avoiding award ceremonies. He was the first writer to be awarded the Booker Prize twice: first for ""Life & Times of Michael K"" in 1983, and again for ""Disgrace"" in 1999. Two other authors have since managed this – Peter Carey (in 1988 and 2001) and Hilary Mantel (in 2009 and 2012). ""Summertime"", named on the 2009 longlist, was an early favourite to win an unprecedented third Booker Prize for Coetzee. It subsequently made the shortlist, but lost out to bookmakers' favourite and eventual winner ""Wolf Hall"" by Hilary Mantel. Coetzee was also longlisted in"
"The Child Garden The Child Garden is a 1989 science fiction novel by Geoff Ryman. It won both the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1990. The novel is structured as two books with a brief introduction. The first book was originally published in two parts as ""Love Sickness"" in the Summer and Autumn 1987 editions of the British science fiction magazine ""Interzone"". It won the 1988 BFSA Award and placed 8th in the Locus Poll Award for Best Novella. In a future semitropical England cancer has been cured, but, as a result, the"