Collected Stories

Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles <i>Oscar and Lucinda</i> and <i>True History of the Kelly Gang</i>. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories and this volume collects together all the stories from <i>The Fat Man in History</i> and <i>War Crimes</i> as well as three other stories not previously published in book form.<br><br>The stories persuasive and precisely crafted reveal Carey to be a moralist with a sense of humour a surrealist interested in naturalism and an urban poet delighting in paradox.