The Fat Man In History (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: DJ: unclipped; slightly faded, in mylar. Pages: yellowed. Binding remains tight. Clean copy.
In a world tilted off its axis by bizarre logic and quiet menace, Peter Carey's The Fat Man in History announces the arrival of one of Australia's most audacious literary imaginations. This debut collection of short stories presents a gallery of ordinary lives trapped in extraordinary, often grotesque circumstances — from obese men who become symbols of political resistance, to characters adrift in surreal bureaucratic nightmares — each tale constructed with the precision of a fable and the unease of a fever dream. Carey's prose is deceptively spare, wielding dark comedy and dystopian imagery to dissect themes of power, identity, and social alienation in modern society. First published in 1974, the collection established his signature style: a postmodern sensibility shot through with distinctly Australian anxieties. Compared by critics to the work of Kafka and Borges yet unmistakably his own, Carey leaves the reader perpetually off-balance — certain only that the next story will shatter whatever assumptions the last one left intact.
Author: Peter Carey
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, University of Queensland Press
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: DJ: unclipped; slightly faded, in mylar. Pages: yellowed. Binding remains tight. Clean copy.
In a world tilted off its axis by bizarre logic and quiet menace, Peter Carey's The Fat Man in History announces the arrival of one of Australia's most audacious literary imaginations. This debut collection of short stories presents a gallery of ordinary lives trapped in extraordinary, often grotesque circumstances — from obese men who become symbols of political resistance, to characters adrift in surreal bureaucratic nightmares — each tale constructed with the precision of a fable and the unease of a fever dream. Carey's prose is deceptively spare, wielding dark comedy and dystopian imagery to dissect themes of power, identity, and social alienation in modern society. First published in 1974, the collection established his signature style: a postmodern sensibility shot through with distinctly Australian anxieties. Compared by critics to the work of Kafka and Borges yet unmistakably his own, Carey leaves the reader perpetually off-balance — certain only that the next story will shatter whatever assumptions the last one left intact.