Peter Carey’s exploration of the great adventure of American democracy, which brings to life the unusual relationship between two extraordinary characters
Peter Carey’s contemporary classic is a dazzling comic account of one man’s unbelievable exploits across the Australian continent
Herbert Badgery, a 139-year-old car salesman and snake-fancier, is torn between the desire to be a good man and his need to attract people by means of his fantastic lies. Subjects of his outrageous untruths include, but are not limited to: bush pilots, fan dancers, communists, schoolteachers and exotic bird dealers.
Peter Carey
About the Author
Peter Carey is an Australian author who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly GangOther nominated books by Peter Carey
Shifting from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, this is Peter Carey’s brilliant and moving story of art, fraud, friendship and redemption
Author Peter Carey skilfully makes art from the life story of his country’s greatest outlaw, giving his true measure of that ‘best bloody man’
Peter Carey’s rich and endlessly inventive tale about two unusual characters in 19th-century Australia won the Booker Prize in 1988
