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201.Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing from: University of Queensland Pr (Australia)
December 30, 2007


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206.The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith by: Peter Carey
1994
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

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I feel rather churlish giving this just four stars, for in a certain mood I can see it as my favourite Peter Carey novel (which is saying something) - but it's such an odd fever-dream of a book.

The novel is set in a fully-realised and densely enveloping parallel Earth, where the geography is different but international power inequalities are the same. Tristan Smith is born, with short-limbed dwarfism and severely cleft lip and palate, to an actress mother in the third-world tropical archipelago of Efica. Spurned by many on account of his appearance, he is raised with hopeful love by his mother (with the help of three very different surrogate "fathers"), until she becomes involved in political activities against the capitalist superpower ... Read More:

207.Bitin' Back by: Vivienne Cleveen
2001
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

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I feel rather churlish giving this just four stars, for in a certain mood I can see it as my favourite Peter Carey novel (which is saying something) - but it's such an odd fever-dream of a book.

The novel is set in a fully-realised and densely enveloping parallel Earth, where the geography is different but international power inequalities are the same. Tristan Smith is born, with short-limbed dwarfism and severely cleft lip and palate, to an actress mother in the third-world tropical archipelago of Efica. Spurned by many on account of his appearance, he is raised with hopeful love by his mother (with the help of three very different surrogate "fathers"), until she becomes involved in political activities against the capitalist superpower ... Read More:

208.Stradbroke Dreamtime by: Oodgeroo
September 29, 1993
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I feel rather churlish giving this just four stars, for in a certain mood I can see it as my favourite Peter Carey novel (which is saying something) - but it's such an odd fever-dream of a book.

The novel is set in a fully-realised and densely enveloping parallel Earth, where the geography is different but international power inequalities are the same. Tristan Smith is born, with short-limbed dwarfism and severely cleft lip and palate, to an actress mother in the third-world tropical archipelago of Efica. Spurned by many on account of his appearance, he is raised with hopeful love by his mother (with the help of three very different surrogate "fathers"), until she becomes involved in political activities against the capitalist superpower ... Read More:

209.Double Exposure by: Brian Caswell
2005-08
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I feel rather churlish giving this just four stars, for in a certain mood I can see it as my favourite Peter Carey novel (which is saying something) - but it's such an odd fever-dream of a book.

The novel is set in a fully-realised and densely enveloping parallel Earth, where the geography is different but international power inequalities are the same. Tristan Smith is born, with short-limbed dwarfism and severely cleft lip and palate, to an actress mother in the third-world tropical archipelago of Efica. Spurned by many on account of his appearance, he is raised with hopeful love by his mother (with the help of three very different surrogate "fathers"), until she becomes involved in political activities against the capitalist superpower ... Read More:

210.Townsville and Thuringowa Street Directory from: Universal Publishers
2007-06
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I feel rather churlish giving this just four stars, for in a certain mood I can see it as my favourite Peter Carey novel (which is saying something) - but it's such an odd fever-dream of a book.

The novel is set in a fully-realised and densely enveloping parallel Earth, where the geography is different but international power inequalities are the same. Tristan Smith is born, with short-limbed dwarfism and severely cleft lip and palate, to an actress mother in the third-world tropical archipelago of Efica. Spurned by many on account of his appearance, he is raised with hopeful love by his mother (with the help of three very different surrogate "fathers"), until she becomes involved in political activities against the capitalist superpower ... Read More:

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