Further Reading
CRITICISM
Bell, Pearl K. Review of The Tax Inspector, by Peter Carey. Partisan Review 59, no. 2 (spring 1992): 282-85.
Bell provides a mixed assessment of The Tax Inspector, praising Carey's descriptive details but arguing that the story tends to be overly gruesome.
Bradley, James. “Bread and Sirkuses: Empire and Culture in Peter Carey's The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith and Jack Maggs.” Meanjin 56, nos. 3-4 (September-December 1997): 657-65.
Bradley highlights the postcolonial themes in The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith and Jack Maggs, focusing on the displacement of actual or self-imposed exile.
Carey, Peter, and Lisa Meyer. “An Interview with Peter Carey.” Chicago Review 43, no. 2 (spring 1997): 76-89.
Carey discusses the profession of writing, his novels, and the underlying symbolism in his works.
Krist, Gary. “Classics Revisited.” Hudson Review 51, no. 3 (autumn 1998): 623-25.
Krist praises Jack Maggs as an ironic statement against Charles Dickens's Great Expectations but takes issue with Carey's upbeat and unexpectedly forgiving ending.
Porter, Peter. “Made Noble in the Fire.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 5101 (5 January 2001): 19-20.
Porter examines the real and fictional elements in True History of the Kelly Gang.
Additional coverage of Carey's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 123, 127; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 53, 76, 117; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 40, 55, 96; Contemporary Novelists, Ed. 7; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 289; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; Reference Guide to Short Fiction, Ed. 2; and Something about the Author, Vol. 94.
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