Collected Stories (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: new ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
A landmark collection of short fiction, Collected Stories gathers the full breadth of Peter Carey's early imaginative work, showcasing the dazzling range and invention that would establish him as one of the most celebrated writers in the English-speaking world. The stories present a darkly comic and often surreal vision of modern life, drawing on elements of fable, science fiction, and social satire to illuminate the absurdities of human ambition, desire, and self-deception. Carey's prose moves with unsettling confidence between the mundane and the fantastical, crafting characters who inhabit worlds that feel simultaneously familiar and deeply strange. Each story uncovers a distinct moral or emotional truth, rendered with the kind of precise, inventive language that rewards close reading. Taken together, the collection illustrates why Carey's short fiction remains essential reading — a body of work that is as intellectually provocative as it is compulsively readable.
Author: Peter Carey
Format: Paperback
Published: 2001, University of Queensland Press
Edition: new ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
A landmark collection of short fiction, Collected Stories gathers the full breadth of Peter Carey's early imaginative work, showcasing the dazzling range and invention that would establish him as one of the most celebrated writers in the English-speaking world. The stories present a darkly comic and often surreal vision of modern life, drawing on elements of fable, science fiction, and social satire to illuminate the absurdities of human ambition, desire, and self-deception. Carey's prose moves with unsettling confidence between the mundane and the fantastical, crafting characters who inhabit worlds that feel simultaneously familiar and deeply strange. Each story uncovers a distinct moral or emotional truth, rendered with the kind of precise, inventive language that rewards close reading. Taken together, the collection illustrates why Carey's short fiction remains essential reading — a body of work that is as intellectually provocative as it is compulsively readable.