2/17/2024 0 Comments A long way home book review![]() Bobs, somewhere in a dusty ramshackle place in Australia, and his dislikable father who wants to open a Ford dealership to spite his son who wants to do the exact same thing. I didn't feel interested in any of the characters - "Titch" the tiny little man married to Mrs. It didn't have an unbelievable story (well, at least, not to the 30% mark when I finally gave up). Carey is an established author, no danger of that). So why am I breaking all the rules and tossing it aside? It wasn't written poorly (Mr. He's a Booker Prize winner (x2) and a new-to-me author. I was so interested in reading this new book by Peter Carey. FINALLY, I am allowing myself the luxury of saying "this is not for me, bye-bye now." Aren't you proud of me? ![]() This is a big deal, folks! So many times, I have suffered through books that I did not enjoy, books that failed to engage me, books that were a chore to read and return to. My point is, I'm bringing back the 1-star reviews.Ģ) For the first time in my 3+ years on Goodreads, I am reviewing a book that I have abandoned. well, I'll get to that in reason #2 in a second. How could I? But I still disliked this book to the point of. Do I hate this book as much as A Little Life? In all honesty, I do NOT hate this book as much as I hate A Little Life. I have always thought of that "book" whenever determining if I should award 1 star. Why, you may want to know? Well, two reasons:ġ) For the first time since I read A Little Life, I am bestowing a 1-star rating to a review. In the years since he has written My Life as a Fake, Theft, His Illegal Self and Parrot and Oliver in America (shortlisted for 2010 Man Booker Prize). In 2003 he joined Hunter College as the Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing. He collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders. During these years he wrote The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith, Jack Maggs, and True History of the Kelly Gang for which he won his second Booker Prize. Later he would have similar jobs at Princeton, The New School and Barnard College. In 1990 he moved to New York where he completed The Tax Inspector. Uncomfortable with this success he began work on The Tax Inspector. Illywhacker was short listed for the Booker Prize. It was during this period that he wrote War Crimes, Bliss, Illywhacker, Oscar and Lucinda. Thus between 19, he was able to pursue literature obsessively. This slim book made him an overnight success.įrom 1976 Carey worked one week a month for Grey Advertising, then, in 1981 he established a small business where his generous partner required him to work only two afternoons a week. He was nineteen.įor the next thirteen years he wrote fiction at night and weekends, working in many advertising agencies in Melbourne, London and Sydney.Īfter four novels had been written and rejected The Fat Man in History - a short story collection - was published in 1974. ![]() He was then employed by an advertising agency where he began to receive his literary education, meeting Faulkner, Joyce, Kerouac and other writers he had previously been unaware of. In 1961 he studied science for a single unsuccessful year at Monash University. He was a student there between 19 - after Rupert Murdoch had graduated and before Prince Charles arrived. ![]() He was educated at the local state school until the age of eleven and then became a boarder at Geelong Grammar School. Peter Carey was born in Australia in 1943. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |