An Afternoon with Peter Carey

State Library of VictoriaThursday, March 24, 2011, 12:30 p.m.
The New York Public Library, New York

Peter Carey is a best-selling and two-time Booker Prize-winning author whose novels include True History of the Kelly Gang and Jack Maggs. His most recent novel, Parrot and Olivier in America tells of the unlikely friendship between a French aristocrat and an English laborer adventuring in 19th century America. Join us as Peter Carey discusses his work and his inspiration with fellow writer, Nathan Englander, noted author of the novel The Ministry of Special Cases.