Seven-year-old Che Selkirk was raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. The son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties, Che has grown up with the hope that one day his parents will come back for h...
A Booker Prize-winning author presents a novel set in 1830s Dickensian London featuring a thief who insinuates his way into the passionate entanglements of a well-appointed household and meets a writer obsessed with the criminal mind....
Peter Carey, Australian writer and winner of two Booker Prizes (OSCAR AND LUCINDA and TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG), returns with a bawdy and wickedly plotted tale of a formerly famous painter, his enormous man-child brother, and t...
The Chemistry of Tears (Vintage Inter...
Peter CareyWhen Catherine Gehrig, a museum conservator in London, falls into grief after her lover's sudden death, her boss gives her a special project. She will bring back to "life" a nineteenth-century mechanical bird. As she begins ...
Man Booker Prize FinalistNational Book Award FinalistTwo-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's latest feat of imagination is an irrepressible, audacious, and trenchantly funny novel set mostly in nineteenth-century America. Olivier�...
Oscar and Lucinda: movie tie-in editi...
Peter CareySet in nineteenth-century Australia, the story of an unlikely romance between a rebellious Anglican priest and a teenaged heiress who buys a glass factory is the basis of a major motion picture. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. Movie t...