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Title: The Fat Man in History
Condition: New
EAN: 9780571144389
ISBN: 9780571144389
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 03/04/2002
Item Height: 199mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 12mm
Item Weight: 160g
Author: Peter Carey
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0571144381
Description:

The stories in Peter Carey's collection are bizarre, funny and chilling. Their landscape is exotic and surreal, an ominous near-future that has the distinct feel of contemporary life. Carey's narratives are an exhilarating blend of fable, fantasy and allegory in which, as in dreams, something odd and menacing takes control.

Here are societies in which people gamble for new bodies in a genetic lottery or watch apprehensively as first buildings, then parts of the landscape, and eventually their neighbours, begin to dematerialise and vanish. Here is what happens when a miniature replica of a small town and its inhabitants assumes a more compelling reality than its original or when a group of fat men, ostracised by a revolutionary government, plot its overthrow.

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