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by Peter Carey
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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter CareySeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:1993-01-04Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679743323ISBN-10:679743324UPC:9780679743323Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Short Stories (single author)Size:8.18 x 5.12 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC5BYDK9TN
If, in some post-Marxist utopia, obesity were declared counterrevolutionary, how would a houseful of fat men strike back? If it were possible to win a new body by lottery, what kind of people would choose ugliness? If two gun-toting thugs decided to take over a business--and run it through sheer terror--how far would their methods take them?

These are the questions that Peter Carey, author of The Tax Inspector and Oscar and Lucinda, brilliantly explores in this collection of stories. Exquisitely written and thoroughly envisioned, the tales in The Fat Man in History reach beyond their arresting premises to utter deep and often frightening truths about our brightest and darkest selves.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679743323ISBN-10:679743324UPC:9780679743323Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Short Stories (single author)Size:8.18 x 5.12 x 0.52 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC5BYDK9TN
PETER CAREY is the author of thirteen previous novels. In addition to the Booker Prize, his honors include the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Born in Australia, he has lived in New York City for more than twenty-five years.
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

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