Flinders University of South Australia

NOTE :This site was created as part of my postgraduate study of Peter Carey's fiction (from Bliss to The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith), and is no longer updated on a regular basis. For more information about Carey's work, including more detail about his later publications, please visit
Peter Carey's own site at http://petercareybooks.com/

Peter Carey Website

Rebecca Vaughan

(Photograph © by Craig Voevodin)

Peter Carey is one of the leading Australian, and indeed world, authors writing today. His work, which ranges from science fiction to gothic romance and everywhere in between, continues to receive both popular and academic acclaim. He is perhaps most widely known for his 1988 Booker Prize winning Oscar and Lucinda, and has recently (August 1997) released Jack Maggs, the story, inspired in part by Dickens' Great Expectations, of a convict returning "home" to England.This site provides information about Carey's life and work, and details of where you can read more.

You may be interested in visiting Peter Carey's own site at http://petercareybooks.com/

Biography

A brief history of Carey's working life

Bibliography

An extensive list of Carey's works

Synopses

A brief synopsis of each of the major novels

References

A list of reviews, papers etc.

Other Sites

A list of links to other pages of interest

About this site

© Copyright Rebecca Vaughan, 1997

NOTE :This site was created as part of my postgraduate study of Peter Carey's fiction (from Bliss to The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith), and is no longer updated on a regular basis. For more information about Carey's work, including more detail about his later publications, please visit
Peter Carey's own site at http://petercareybooks.com/