Good novels are hard to come by, so I always welcome a fresh one by Peter Carey – a writer whose work I’ve read closely, usually with pleasure. Parrot and Olivier in America, his eleventh novel, ranks among his best, on a par with Illywhacker (1985), his darkly humorous early masterpiece, or True History of the Kelly Gang (2000), possibly his finest moment in fiction – although I harbour affections for such early (and quirky) novels as Bliss (1981) and Oscar and Lucinda (1988).

Literary Review

Mar 2010

Categories

Jay Parini

Battle Lines

Feds under the Bed

Tender Is the Writer

Getting into Character

Chasing the Rabbit

No Fiesta

‘I Am in My Element And I Defy You…’

All That David Copperfield Kind of Crap

No Need To Be Depressed

‘Taller Than the Trees’

Earning His Badges

The Inheritance of Isabel Archer

How the Party Started

Antic Roadshow

Wire Power