Adam's review
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
Adam's review
rating:
bookshelves: australianauthors, read-2007
recommended for: most people
status: Read in November, 2007
rating:
bookshelves: australianauthors, read-2007
recommended for: most people
status: Read in November, 2007
After the dog's breakfast of My Life as a Fake, and viewed through the lens of my inability to even get through chapter one of Oscar and Lucinda, and my strong dislike of the overly mannered and badly-ended True History of the Kelly Gang, I wasn't expecting to like this book half as much as I did.
And I really did like it. I was charmed by its overt Aussieness, which I think was weilded in a very deft way by Carey. Even the fact that it's a very magpie book in that you'd be hard pressed to find a situation or setting that Carey hasn't directly experienced himself didn't spoil the enjoyment.
I liked the visceral passions of Butcher Bones and his drive to put what he sees as his irredeemable parochialism behind himself and to force the world to acknowledge his self-diagnosed genius. ...more
And I really did like it. I was charmed by its overt Aussieness, which I think was weilded in a very deft way by Carey. Even the fact that it's a very magpie book in that you'd be hard pressed to find a situation or setting that Carey hasn't directly experienced himself didn't spoil the enjoyment.
I liked the visceral passions of Butcher Bones and his drive to put what he sees as his irredeemable parochialism behind himself and to force the world to acknowledge his self-diagnosed genius. ...more
