This page last updated 18 January 2008.
This project was undertaken with the aim of assembling a range of bibliographical data pertaining to the Australian writer Peter Carey. The section listing Carey's works is brief , listing only his works of fiction and one collection of autobiographical material. Due to limited space, I have elected to leave out his many magazine and newspaper articles, book reviews etc.
Bliss. London: Faber and Faber, 1981.
Illywhacker. London: Faber and Faber, 1985.
Oscar and Lucinda. London: Faber and Faber, 1988.
The Tax Inspector. London: Faber and Faber, 1991.
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith. London: Faber and Faber, 1994.
Jack Maggs. London: Faber and Faber,1997.
The Fat Man in History. St. Lucia: U. of Queensland P., 1974.
War Crimes. St. Lucia: U. of Queensland P., 1979.
The Fat Man in History and Other Stories. London: Faber and Faber, 1980. (Also published as Exotic Pleasures. London: Picador, 1981.)
Collected Stories. London: Faber and Faber, 1994.
"An Abandoned Chapter." Overland 148 (1997): 16-17.
Bliss. (screenplay adaptation w/Ray Lawrence). London: Faber and Faber, 1986.
Until The End Of The World.(Screenplay). North Hollywood: Hollywood Scripts, 1990.
A Letter To Our Son.(non-fiction) St. Lucia: U. of Queensland P., 1994.
The Big Bazoohley. London: Faber and Faber, 1995.
Dovey, Teresa. "An Infinite Onion: Narrative Structure in Peter Carey's Fiction." Australian Literary Studies 11(1983): 195-204.
Hassall, A.J. "Telling Lies and Stories: Peter Carey's Bliss." Modern Fiction Studies 35(1989) : 637-653.
Natale, Antonella Riem. "Harry Joy's Children: The Art of Story Telling in Peter Carey's Bliss." Australian Literary Studies 16 (1994): 341-47.
Chettle, Judith. "Paradise Lost and Found." Washington Post Book World 2 May 1982: 8.
Cooke, Judy. "Paradise." New Statesman 20 Nov. 1981: 22.
Gelder, K. "Bliss and Punishment." Canle Reviews Journal 1 (1983): 46-48
Graeber L. "Bliss." New York Times Book Review (1996): 24.
King, Francis. "Suburban Inferno." Spectator 12 Dec. 1981.
McKernan, S. "Recent Fiction." Overland 88 (1982): 56-59.
Ryle, J. "Magic and Poison." Times Literary Supplement 20 Nov 1981: 1350
Blaber, Ronald and Marvin Gilman. Roguery - The Picaresque Tradition in Australian, Canadian and Indian Fiction. Springwood, NSW: Butterfly Books, 1990.
Burns, D.R. "Feasibility Through Fictional Ploys." Overland 137 (1994): 39-44.
Daniel, Helen. "'The Liar's Lump', Or, 'A Salesman's Sense of History': Peter Carey's Illywhacker." Southerly 47 (1986): 157-167.
Edwards, Brian. "Deceptive Constructions: The Art of Building in Peter Carey's Illywhacker." Australia and New Zealand Studies in Canada 4 (1990): 39- 56.
Fletcher, M.D. "Peter Carey's Postcolonial Australia I: Illywhacker: Lies, Dependence and Political History." Australian Political Ideas. Ed. Geoff Stokes. New South Wales: U. of NSW, 1994.
McClusky, Phil. "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the Outback: Contextualising a Structural Magic Realism." Span 36 (1993): 88-94.
Rowan, Leonie Olivea. Peter Carey's Illywhacker: An Analysis of the Novel as a Work of Metafiction. Brisbane: L. Rowan, 1989.
Ryan, Sue. "Metafiction in Illywhacker: Peter Carey's Renovated Picaresque Novel." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 14.1 (1991): 33-40.
Sharrad, Paul. "Responding to the Challenge: Peter Carey and the Reinvention of Australia." Span 25 (1987): 37-46.
Thwaites, Tony. "More Tramps at Home: Seeing Australia First." Meanjin 46 (1987): 400-409.
Todd, Richard. "Narrative Trickery and Performative Historiography: Fictional Representation of National Identity in Graham Swift, Peter Carey and Mordecai Richler." Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community. Eds. Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris. Durham: Duke U.P., 1995. 307-28.
Duwell, M. "The Lie of the Land." Overland 101 (1985): 92-94.(review)
Graeber, L. "Illywhacker." New York Times Book Review (1996): 68.
Hislop, A. "Whoppers and Warnings." Times Literary Supplement 3 May 1985: 492.
Jacobson, H. "Dirty Very Old Man." New York Times Book Review Nov. 1985: 15
Lewis, P. "Illywhacker." Stand Magazine 26.3 (1985): 51-56.
Spice, Nicholas. "Phattbookia Stupenda." London Review of Books 18 April 1985: 20-21.
Suplee, Curt."Con Man of the Outback." Washington Post Book World 18 Aug, 1985.
Taylor, D.J. "Down Under With Waltzing Jane." Encounter 65.3 (1985): 51-52.
Beer, Gillian. "The Reader's Wager: Lots, Sorts and Futures." Essays in Criticism 40 (1990): 99-123.
Brown, Ruth. "English Heritage and Australian Culture: The Church and Literature of England in Oscar and Lucinda." Australian Literary Studies 17 (1995): 135-40.
Callahan, David. "Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda and the Subversion of Subversion." Australian Studies 4 (1990): 20-26.
Elkner, Brian. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey. Melbourne: Dept. of Discussion Programs, 1990.
Fletcher, M.D. "Peter Carey's Postcolonial Australia II: Oscar and Lucinda: Misunderstanding, Victimisation and Political History." Australian Political Ideas. Ed. Geoff Stokes. New South Wales: U. of NSW, 1994.
Huggan, Graham. "Is the (Gunter) Grass Greener on the Other Side? Oskar and Lucinde in the New World." World Literature Written in English 30.1 (1990): 1-10.
Ommundsen, Wenche. "Narrative Navel Gazing - How to Recognize a Metafiction When You See One." Southern Review (Adelaide) 22.3 (1989): 269-71.
Petersen, Holst. "Gambling on Reality." Australian Literary Studies 15 (1991): 107- 16. (Special issue entitled European Perspectives: Contemporary Essays on Australian Literature. Ed. Giovanni Capone.)
Ackerley, Chris. "Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey." Landfall 44.1 (March 1990): 94.
Bainbridge, Beryl. "Oscar and Lucinda." New York Times Book Review 29 May 1988: 1.
Busch, F. "Oscar and Lucinda: Victorian Adventure Offers Thrills, Heartbreak, Comedy." Chicago Tribune 19 June 1988:1,11.
Dyer, Geoff. "The Long, Long Love Affair." New Statesman 1 Apr 1988:28.
Enright, D.J. "People in Glass Churches." Listener 31 Mar 1988:29.
Harris, M. "Eminent Victorians." Southerly 49 (1989): 109-113.
King, Francis. "Edmund Gosse Goes to Australia." Spectator 2 Apr 1988:32-33.
Lee, Hermione. "Duo Down Under." Observer 27 Mar 1988: 42.
Liverani, M.R. "Oscar and Lucinda." Overland 110 (1988): 70-72.
Richey, N.J. "Oscar and Lucinda." World Literature Today 63 (1989): 534-535.
Sage, L. "Backwards into Destiny." Times Literary Supplement 1 Apr. 1988: 363.
See, Carolyn. "A Dance to the Music of Eternity." LA Times Book Review 19 June, 1988.
Walters, Margaret. "You Bet Your Life." London Review of Books, 21 Apr. 1988: 20.
Wilhelmus, T. "Oscar and Lucinda." Hudson Review 41.3 (1988): 551-553.
Bode, Barbara. "Angels and Devils- Child Sexual Abuse in Peter Carey's The Tax Inspector." Antipodes 9.2 (Dec 1995): 107-10.
Dixon, Robert. "Closing the Can of Worms: Enactments of Justice in Bleak House, The Mystery of a Hansom Cab and The Tax Inspector." Westerly 37.4 (1992): 37-45.
Bell, P.K. "The Tax Inspector." Partisan Review 59.2 (1992): 282-295.
Brady, Veronica. "Birth, Death and Taxes." Overland 125 (1991): 80-83.
Craig, J. "The Real Thing." Southerly 52 (1992): 152-156.
Eder, Richard. "Titans of the Junkyard." LA Times Book Review 29 Dec, 1991: 3,8.
Graeber, L. "The Tax Inspector." New York Times Book Review 28 Feb. 1993: 32.
Koenig, Rhoda. "Taxes and Death." New York 13 Jan 1992: 62.
Marx, Bill. "Dystopia Down Under." Nation 16 Mar. 1992: 346-48.
Prose, Francine. "Would You Buy A Used Car From This Family?." New York Times Book Review 12 Jan 1992: 1.
Towers, Robert. "House of Cards." The New York Review of Books 25 June 1992: 35-36.
White, E. "Recognizing Jack." Times Literary Supplement 30 Aug. 1991: 21.
Bradley, James. "A Slippery, Ripperty Thing: Empire and Culture in Peter Carey's Tristan Smith." The New York Review of Science Fiction 9.5 (1997): 17-19.
Griffin, David. "A Rebuttal to James Bradley." The New York Review of Science Fiction 9.11 (1997): 15-18.
Bernard, April. "The Unusual Life Of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey." The New York Review of Books 22 June 1995:44.
"Books." Maclean's 20 Feb 1995: 65.
Coad. D. "The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith." World Literature Today 70 (1996): 757-758.
Coe, Jonathan. "Principa Efica." The London Review of Books 22 Sept 1994: 5.
Glover, Douglas. "Australia On My Mind." Chicago Tribune 19 Feb 1995: 5.
Graeber, L. "The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith." New York Times Book Review (1996): 24.
Hensher, Philip. "Heaven, Hell and Disneyland." Guardian Weekly 23 Oct. 1994: 28.
Heyward, Michael. "Parallel Universes." The New Republic 10 Apr. 1995: 38.
Jaireth, S. "The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith." Overland 139 (1995): 72-74
Kellaway, Kate. "Every Man is a Theatre." Observer Review 11 Sept. 1994: 18.
Koening, Rhoda. "Books." Vogue Feb. 1995 : 161.
Korn, E. "Entertaining Empires." Times Literary Supplement 2 Sept.1994: 10.
See, Carolyn. "A Magic Tale of Spectacle." Washington Post 17 Feb. 1995: F7.
"The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey." The New York Times Book Review 12 Feb. 1995: 7.
Woodward, Richard B. "Out of Efica." The Village Voice 28 Feb. 1995: 59.
Hassall, A.J. "A Tale of Two Countries:Jack Maggs and Peter Carey's Fiction." Australian Literary Studies 18(1997): 128-135.
Hensher, Philip. "Jack Maggs." The Spectator 20 Sep. 1997: 36.
Kermode, Frank. "Jack Maggs." The London Review of Books 16 Oct. 1997: 8.
Litvack, Leon. "Jack Maggs by Peter Carey." Dickensian 94.1 (1998): 58-60.
Nokes, David. "Jack Maggs." The Times Literary Supplement 12 Sept. 1997: 6.
Callahan, David. "Whose History is the Fat Man's? Peter Carey's The Fat Man in History." Span 40 (1995): 34-53.
Gilbey, David. "Experiments in Narrative." Southerly 37 (1977):461-74.
Manning, Greg. "Reading Lesson: The Fat Man in History, Teaching and Deconstructive Practice." Span 21 (1985): 38-55.
Tate, Trudi. "Unravelling the Feminine: Peter Carey's 'Peeling'." Meanjin 46 (1987): 394-399.
Bennett, Bruce. "The Fat Man in History." World Literature Written in English Nov 1976.
Harrison-Ford, Carl. "New Australian Fiction." Stand 16.3 (1975).
Philip, Neil. "The Fat Man in History." British Book News Feb 1981: 117.
Ryan-Fazilleau, Susan. "One-Upmanship in Peter Carey's Short Stories." Journal of the Short Story in English 16 (1991): 51-63.
Clancy, L. "War Crimes." Overland 84 (1981): 29-30.
Legasse, Jim. "War Crimes." Westerly 2 (1980):122.
Bliss, Caroyln. "Collected Stories." World Literature Today 70 (1996): 757.
Hassall, Anthony J. "Winners and Losers -Peter Carey's The Big Bazoohley." Antipodes 10.2 (1996): 117-20.
Slepian, J. "The Big Bazoohley." New York Times Book Review (1995): 30.
Hassall, Anthony J. Dancing on Hot Macadam: Peter Carey's Fiction. Queensland: U of Queensland P., 1994. [Rev. by B. Kiernan in Australian Literary Studies 17 (1995): 135-140.]
Huggan, Graham. Peter Carey. Melbourne; New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. [Rev. by Peter Pierce in Australian Literary Studies 18 (1997): 198- 200.Rev. by P. McCluskey in Overland 148 (1997): 79-80.]
Krassnitzer, Hermine. Aspects of Narration in Peter Carey's Novels: Deconstructing Colonialism. Lewiston: E. Mellen Press, 1995.
Lamb, Karen. Peter Carey: The Genesis of Fame. Pymble, NSW: Collins-Angus & Robertson, 1992.
Woodcock, Bruce. Peter Carey. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996. [Rev. by Peter Pierce in Australian Literary Studies 18 (1997): 198-200.]
Adam, Ian. "Breaking the Chain: Anti-Saussurean Resistance in Birney, Carey and C.S. Pierce." Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post-Colonialism and Post- Modernism. Eds. Ian Adam and Helen Tiffin. Calgary: U. of Calgary P., 1990. 79-93.
Ashcroft, Bill. "Against the Tide of Time: Peter Carey's Interpolation into History."Writing the Nation: Self and Country in the Post-Colonial
Imagination. Ed. John C. Hawley. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996. 194-213.
Fletcher, M.D. "Post-Colonial Peter Carey." SPAN: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies 32 (1991): 12-23.
Fuery, Patrick. "Prisoners and Spiders Surrounded by Signs: Postmodernism and the Postcolonial Gaze in Contemporary Australian Culture." Recasting the World. Ed. J White. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins U.P., 1994.
Herman, Luc. "Canonizing Australia: The Case of Peter Carey." Shades of Empire in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature. Eds. C.C. Barfoot and Theo D'Haen. Amsterdam; Atlanta: Rodopi, 1993.
Kane, Paul. "Postcolonial/Postmodern: Australian Literature and Peter Carey." World Literature Today 67 (1993): 519-22.
Bliss, Carolyn. "Categorical Infringement: Australian Prose in the Eighties." Journal of Narrative Technique 21.1 (1991): 43-51.
Daniel, Helen. "Lies for Sale: Peter Carey."Liars: Australian New Novelists. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1988: 148-84.
Daniel, Helen. "The Rivalries of the Fictions." International Literatures in English: Essays on the Major Writers. Ed. Robert L. Ross. New York: Garland, 1991. 405-15.
"The Fantasy Lands of Saramago and Carey." New Statesman 18 Nov 1994: 36.
Fletcher, M.D. "The Theme of Entrapment in Peter Carey's Fiction." Australian Literature Today. Eds. R.K. Dhawan and David Kerr. New Delhi: Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies, 1993. 74-79.
Ikin, Van. "Peter Carey: The Stories." Science Fiction 1.1 (1977): 19-29.
Pana, Irina Grigorescu. "The Tomis Complex: Versions of Exile in Australian Literature". World Literature Today 67 (1993): 523-32.
Pierce, Peter. "Captivity, Captivation: Aspects of Peter Carey's Fiction." 'And What Books Do You Read?' : New Studies in Australian Literature. Eds. Irmtraud Petersson and Martin Duwell. Queensland: U. of Queensland Press, 1996. 140-50.
Reid, Tony. "Dreamtime Australia." NZ Listener 30 Apr. 1991: 18-21.
Ross, Robert. "'It Cannot Not Be There': Borges and Australia's Peter Carey." Borges and His Successors: The Borgesian Impact on Literature and the Arts. Ed. Edna Aizenberg. Columbia: U. of Missouri P., 1990. 44-58.
Turner, George. "Science Fiction, Parafiction and Peter Carey." Science Fiction 10.1 (1988): 14-21.
---. "Parentheses." Meanjin 48 (1989): 195-204.
Turner, Graeme. "American Dreaming: The Fictions of Peter Carey." Australian Literary Studies 12 (1986): 431-441.
---. "Nationalising the Author: The Celebrity of Peter Carey." Australian Literary Studies 16 (1993): 131-39.
Willbanks, Ray. Australian Voices: Writers and their Work. Austin: U. of Texas P., 1991.
Yell, Susan. "Control and Conflict: Dialogue in Prose Fiction." Journal of the Australasian Universites Language and Literature Association 74 (1990): 136- 53.
Bacon, Kevin. "Peter Carey: Australian National Book Council Award Winner." Glimmer Train Stories 14 (1995): 123-33.
Baker, Candida. Yacker: Australian Writers Talk About Their Work. Sydney: Pan Books, 1986.
Coe, Jonathan. "The Inspector of Oz." Guardian 5 Sep.1991.
Giuffre, G. "Peter Carey Speaking." The Australian 6-7 July 1985: 3.
Ifeka, Helena. "Peter Carey." Hermes 8 (1992): 14-23.
Ikin, Van. "Answers to Seventeen Questions: An Interview With Peter Carey." Science Fiction 1.1 (1977): 30-39.
Jach, Antoni. "An Interview with Peter Carey." Mattoid 31 (1988): 24-36.
Maddocks, J. "Bizarre Realities - An Interview With Peter Carey." Southerly 41 (1981): 27-40.
Meyer, L. "An Interview With Peter Carey." Chicago Review 43.2 (1997):76-89.
Neilsen, Philip. "Waiting for the Barbarians: An Interview With Peter Carey". Literature in North Queensland 15.3 (1987): 66-73.
Sorenson, Rosemary. "Reputations Made and Unmade: Rosemary Sorenson Talks to Evan Green, Alex Miller and Peter Carey." Australian Book Review 134 (1991): 10-11.
Tausky, Thomas E. "'Getting the Corner Right': An Interview With Peter Carey." Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada 4 (1990): 27-38.
Wachtel, Eleanor. "'We Really Can Make Ourselves UP': An Interview With Peter Carey." Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada 9 (1993): 103-5.
White, Edmund. "An Interview With Peter Carey." Sunday Times 20 Mar.1988: 8-9.
Woolfe, Sue and Kate Granville. Making Stories: How Ten Australian Novels Were Written. North Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1993.
Carey, Peter. An Evening With Peter Carey. Videocassette.1988.
Carey, Peter. Interview with John Woods. Sound Cassette. 4ZZZ, 1979.
Carey, Peter. Beautiful Lies. Videocassette. Australia Council, 1987.
Carey, Peter. Writers Talk: Ideas of Our Time. Videocassette. ICA Video, 1990.
Carey, Peter. Conversation with Suzanne Hayes. Audiocassette. Educational Media Unit, 1986.
Carey, Peter, scr. Bliss. Dir. Ray Wallace. R & G Video, 1985.
Carey, Peter, scr. Until The End of the World. Dir. Wim Wenders. Warner, 1992.
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