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Marking time

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March 2008, no. 299

His Illegal Self by Peter Carey

Knopf, $45 hb, 272 pp

Marking time

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March 2008, no. 299

It is hard to become excited about Peter Carey’s new novel, and that is a hard notion to entertain. We are used to being tested, and vastly entertained, by Carey. For a quarter of a century he has written distinctive and highly original fiction, including two or three books (notably True History of the Kelly Gang [2000] for this writer) that triumphantly fulfilled the novel’s enduring claim on our attention. This new work – though comparably imaginative in places – seems to mark not so much a falling-off as a kind of marking time.

Peter Rose reviews 'His Illegal Self' by Peter Carey

His Illegal Self

by Peter Carey

Knopf, $45 hb, 272 pp

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