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Adam, Ian. "Breaking the Chain: Anti-Saussurean Resistance in Birney, Carey and C. S. Peirce." In Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism, edited by Ian Adam and Helen Tiffin, pp. 79-93. University of Calgary Press, 1990.

Compares Earle Birney's narrative poem "David" and Carey's story "Do You Love Me?," focusing on the father-figures in the stories and their Oedipal relations.

Daniel, Helen. "'The Liar's Lump' or 'A Salesman's Sense of History': Peter Carey's Illywhacker." Southerly, No. 2 (June 1986): 157-67.

Describes Illywhacker as an "extraordinary conception of the nature of truth and reality."

Glover, Douglas. "Australia on My Mind." Chicago Tribune (19 February 1995): 5.

States that The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith is "about the place where nation, myth and the...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. Teresa Dovey (essay date October 1983)
   2. Graeme Turner (essay date October 1986)
   3. Tony Thwaites (essay date September 1987)
   4. Helen Daniel (essay date 1988)
   5. A. J. Hassall (essay date Winter 1989)
   6. Graham Huggan (essay date Spring 1990)
   7. Robert Ross (essay date 1990)
   8. Edmund White (review date 30 August 1991)
   9. Richard Eder (review date 29 December 1991)
   10. Robert Towers (review date 25 June 1992)
   11. Jonathan Coe (review date 22 September 1994)
   12. Richard Eder (review date 5 February 1995)
   13. Carol Shields (review date 12 February 1995)
   14. Richard B. Woodward (review date 28 February 1995)
   15. Michael Heyward (review date 10 April 1995)
4. Further Reading
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