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'After living abroad to years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character with the help of his old friends, drawing the reader into a wild and wonderful journey of discovery and rediscovery as bracing as the southerly buster that sometimes batters Sydney's shores. Famous sights such as Bondi Beach, the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and the Blue Mountains all take on a strange new intensity when exposed to the penetrating gaze of the author and his friends.' - back cover (2008).
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Dissecting the Lies of Terra Nullius : The Nightmare of Aboriginal History
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Rewriting History : Peter Carey's Fictional Biography of Australia 2010; (p. 107-140) 'Most of Peter Carey’s fiction is highly political. His writings are explorations of key issues in Australian politics, ranging from cultural issues to the intricacies of foreign affairs. It is not least because of their strong political appeal that all of his novels can be read as postcolonial fictions. In interviews and in his actual political engagement, the author has made it very clear that he wants to use his position as one of the spokespersons of the liberal left to encourage a redefinition of accepted notions of Australianness, past and present.' (p 107) -
A Wildly Distorted Account? : Peter Carey's 30 Days in Sydney
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Fabulating Beauty : Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey 2005; (p. 319-333) Hassall argues that 30 Days in Sydney is consistent both with Carey's 'career-long preoccupation with re-telling aspects of Australia's story' and 'with his practice of doing so via distortions which defamiliarize his subjects, thereby enabling his readers to see them free of those other distortions naturalized by habit and convention. What appears to begin as factual celebrity travel writing ... turns into a collection of stories, of fictions, of beuatiful lies which capture more searchingly than a merely factual travelogue the look, the feel, the history and the spirit of Sydney, that metonym for Australia' (331-332) -
The Inescapable Presence of the Past
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 16 no. 1 2002; (p. 83-84)
— Review of 30 Days in Sydney : A Wildly Distorted Account 2001 single work autobiography -
Untitled
2001
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Cercles 2000-;
— Review of 30 Days in Sydney : A Wildly Distorted Account 2001 single work autobiography -
30 Days in Sydney : A Wildly Distorted Account
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Antithesis , vol. 12 no. 2001; (p. 165-169)
— Review of 30 Days in Sydney : A Wildly Distorted Account 2001 single work autobiography
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The Inescapable Presence of the Past
2002
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 16 no. 1 2002; (p. 83-84)
— Review of 30 Days in Sydney : A Wildly Distorted Account 2001 single work autobiography -
Untitled
2001
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: Cercles 2000-;
— Review of 30 Days in Sydney : A Wildly Distorted Account 2001 single work autobiography -
Sense and the City
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 28-29 July 2001; (p. 6-7)
— Review of 30 Days in Sydney : A Wildly Distorted Account 2001 single work autobiography -
Sydney's Element of Surprise
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 August 2001; (p. 19)
— Review of 30 Days in Sydney : A Wildly Distorted Account 2001 single work autobiography -
Just Wild About Sydney Town
2001
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 11 August 2001; (p. 9)
— Review of 30 Days in Sydney : A Wildly Distorted Account 2001 single work autobiography -
A Wildly Distorted Account? : Peter Carey's 30 Days in Sydney
2005
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Fabulating Beauty : Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey 2005; (p. 319-333) Hassall argues that 30 Days in Sydney is consistent both with Carey's 'career-long preoccupation with re-telling aspects of Australia's story' and 'with his practice of doing so via distortions which defamiliarize his subjects, thereby enabling his readers to see them free of those other distortions naturalized by habit and convention. What appears to begin as factual celebrity travel writing ... turns into a collection of stories, of fictions, of beuatiful lies which capture more searchingly than a merely factual travelogue the look, the feel, the history and the spirit of Sydney, that metonym for Australia' (331-332) -
Dissecting the Lies of Terra Nullius : The Nightmare of Aboriginal History
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Rewriting History : Peter Carey's Fictional Biography of Australia 2010; (p. 107-140) 'Most of Peter Carey’s fiction is highly political. His writings are explorations of key issues in Australian politics, ranging from cultural issues to the intricacies of foreign affairs. It is not least because of their strong political appeal that all of his novels can be read as postcolonial fictions. In interviews and in his actual political engagement, the author has made it very clear that he wants to use his position as one of the spokespersons of the liberal left to encourage a redefinition of accepted notions of Australianness, past and present.' (p 107) -
Carey Casts a Long-Harboured Pall
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 28-29 July 2001; (p. 5) -
If It Sucks, Then Say It
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Australian , 3 October 2001; (p. 30-31)
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