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The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and The Tax Inspector now gives readers a hero, the malformed but ferociously wilful Tristan Smith, who becomes the object of the world's byzantine political intrigues, even as he attains stardom in a bizarre Sirkus that is part passion play and part Mortal Kombat.
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"Irresistible...intimate and theatrical...supple and surprising.... We're in the hands of a master storyteller." --Carol Shields, author of The Stone Diaries "Carey has vaulted to the top ranks of writers in the English-speaking world.... Tristan has an appeal that transcends geography." --Newsday "Carey's always magical, absolutely lovable narrative voice makes The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith an important contribution to contemporary fiction.... No matter what he decides to write or how he decides to write it, it's a priviledge to read him." --Carolyn See, Washington Post Book World "Savage and hilarious...dazzling." --The New York Review of Books
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The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith is an inventive romp by Peter Carey, the Booker Prize-winning author of Amnesia, Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang.
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- PublisherVintage Books Canada
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0679307753
- ISBN 13 9780679307754
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages422
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