It's a story, in a sense the story, of mid-19th century England and Australia, narrated by a man of our time and therefore permeated with modern consciousness. If Illywhacker astounded us with its imaginative richness, this latest Carey novel does so again, with a masterly sureness of touched added. The stuff of shimmering, transparent fantasy, held together by the struts of 19th-century history and the millions of painstaking details.
We have a great novelist living on the planet with us, and his name is Peter Carey.Īs fine a love story and as fascinating an exploration as any reader could wish.Carey writes as if the world he has created, and his own private life, are at stake. It is Thomas Wolfe one is reminded of most when reading Peter Carey.they share that magnificent vitality, that ebullient delight in character, detail and language that turns a novel into an important book.Ī kind of rollercoaster ride.The reader emerges.gasping, blinking, reshaped in a hundred ways, conscious that the world is never going to look the same again. Luminous and magical, Oscar and Lucinda dances with a shimmer of light and dark as its two noble gamblers play out dreams of God and glass. He has the rare gift of making the written world more vivid than life. Bursting with informed gusto, freewheeling comedy, pauses of pathos and moments of surreal poetry – swaggering streetboys ‘with their hands boasting against their braces,’ scared cockatoos flying up "like screeching feathers from a burst pillow"– Oscar & Lucinda is a creative explosion of delight at life’s wayward, diverse plentifulness.Ĭarey is one of the great story-tellers of our time, the kind who make you take the telephone off the hook, forget the television and ignore the doorbell.
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