Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Thorogood
Keywords: commerce, internet
Number of Pages: 102
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 1854182153
ISBN-13: 9781854182159

Supported by essential legal considerations, useful addresses, and web sites, this book provides businesses with valuable information for safeguarding their e-commerce business.

Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: illywhacker
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 1996-04-30
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0679767908
ISBN-13: 9780679767909

The history of twentieth-century Australia is seen through the exploits and adventures of conman Herbert Badgery, as the 139-year-old ""illywhacker"" recalls his diverse careers as an aviator, car salesman, seducer, patriarch, and snake catcher. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. NYT.

Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: bliss
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1996-01-30
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0679767193
ISBN-13: 9780679767190

This novel, by the author of "Oscar and Lucinda", tells the story of a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell. For the first time in his life, Harry Joy sees the world as it really is, and takes up a notebook to explore and notate the true nature of the Underworld.

Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: fake, life
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-01-04
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1400030889
ISBN-13: 9781400030880

Fiendishly devious and addictively readable, Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake is a moral labyrinth constructed around the uneasy relationship between literature and lying. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry journal, meets a mysterious Australian named Christopher Chubb. Chubb is a despised literary hoaxer, carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit. But in this dubious manuscript Sarah recognizes a work of real genius. But whose genius? As Sarah tries to secure the manuscript, Chubb draws her into a fantastic story of imposture

Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: theft
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 2007-05-08
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0307276481
ISBN-13: 9780307276483

Michael "Butcher" Boone is an ex-“really famous" painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they’ve forged a delicate equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when a mysterious young woman named Marlene walks out of a rainstorm and into their lives. Beautiful, smart, and ambitious, she’s also the daughter-in-law of the late great painter Jacques Liebovitz. Soon Marlene sets in motion a chain of events that could be the making--or the ruin--of them all.

Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: america, olivier, parrot
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2010-04-20
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0307592626
ISBN-13: 9780307592620

From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author comes an irrepressibly funny new novel set in early nineteenth-century America.Olivier—an improvisation on the life of Alexis de Tocqueville—is the traumatized child of aristocratic survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot is the motherless son of an itinerant English printer. They are born on different sides of history, but their lives will be connected by an enigmatic one-armed marquis. When Olivier sets sail for the nascent United States—ostensibly to make a study of the penal system, but more precisely to save his neck from one more r

Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: international, vintage, illegal
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-02-10
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 030727649X
ISBN-13: 9780307276490

Seven-year-old Che Selkirk was raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. The son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties, Che has grown up with the hope that one day his parents will come back for him. So when a woman arrives at his front door and whisks him away to the jungles of Queensland, he is confronted with the most important questions of his life: Who is his real mother? Did he know his real father? And if all he suspects is true, what should he do? In this artful tale of a young boy’s journey, His Illegal Self lifts your spirit in the most une