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Elizabeth Liddell

Elizabeth Riddell reviews 'Oscar & Lucinda' by Peter Carey

March 1988, no. 98 01 March 1988
From short stories Peter Carey has proceeded to long novels. This is his third. It is dense with incident and meticulously delineated characters who drop in and out of the narrative, always with a purpose. In some ways it is as surreal as Bliss, in others as naturalistic as Illywacker. But it is like neither of these novels. It cannot be said to be ‘better’ than either, if this mode of compari ... (read more)