Carey, Peter Philip
Carey, Peter Philip ( 1943 – ),Australian novelist, born at Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, educated at Geelong Grammar School and, briefly, at Monash University. After leaving university he worked for advertising agencies in Melbourne and London, moving to Sydney in 1974 . Though a self-proclaimed Australian writer, Carey is a fabulist who does not write in any recognizable national tradition. His is an idiosyncratic voice, his fiction combining realism and the surreal, satire with a keen sense of the fantastic, matter-of-factness with phenomena that Carey himself has called ‘not real but something parallel’. Two volumes of short stories, The Fat Man in History ( 1974 ), which established Carey as a new force in Australian writing, and War Crimes ( 1979 ), were followed by a darkly comic novel, Bliss ( 1981 ), in which an advertising executive dies three times and is resurrected on each occasion, and the...
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