The Australian novelist Peter Carey is a Victorian in postmodern clothing. His novels serve up the joys of nineteenth-century fiction: sprawling plots that trade in melodrama and comic anecdotes, baroque characterizations replete with heaving bosoms and leathery-faced criminals, and a style that delights in depictions of urban life. Yet Carey, like Thomas Pynchon, enjoys playfu (...)
May 07, 2010
Books
On the Road
Parrot and Olivier in AmericaPeter CareyAlfred A. Knopf, $26.95, 400 pp.
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