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The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

By Peter Carey

By Peter Carey

By Peter Carey

By Peter Carey

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Part of Vintage International

Part of Vintage International

Paperback $16.00

Jan 30, 1996 | ISBN 9780679760368

Ebook $12.99

Aug 18, 2010 | ISBN 9780307764287

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    About The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

    From a writer whom Thomas Keneally calls “one of the great figures on the cusp of the millennium” comes a novel that conjures an entire world that suggests our own, but tilted on its axis—a world whose most powerful country, Voorstand, dominates its neighbors with ruthless espionage and its mesmerizing but soul-destroying Sirkus.

    Into that world comes Tristan Smith, a malformed, heroically willful, and unforgivingly observant child. Tristan’s life includes adventure and loss, political intrigue, and a bizarre stardom in the Voorstand Sirkus, where animals talk and human performers die real deaths. The result is a visionary picaresque, staggering in its inventions, spellbinding in its suspense, and unabashedly moving.

    About The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

    The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and The Tax Inspector now gives readers a hero, the malformed but ferociously wilful Tristan Smith, who becomes the object of the world’s byzantine political intrigues, even as he attains stardom in a bizarre Sirkus that is part passion play and part Mortal Kombat.

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    Also by Peter Carey

    Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang
    A Long Way from Home
    Amnesia
    The Chemistry of Tears
    Parrot and Olivier in America
    See all books by Peter Carey

    About Peter Carey

    Peter Carey is the author of thirteen previous novels and is a two-time winner of the Booker Prize. His other honors include the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Born in Australia, he has lived in New… More about Peter Carey

    About Peter Carey

    Peter Carey is the author of thirteen previous novels and is a two-time winner of the Booker Prize. His other honors include the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Born in Australia, he has lived in New… More about Peter Carey

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 30, 1996 | 432 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679760368

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage
    Aug 18, 2010 | 432 Pages | ISBN 9780307764287

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    Praise

    “Irresistible…intimate and theatrical…supple and surprising…. We’re in the hands of a master storyteller.” —Carol Shields, author of The Stone Diaries

    “Carey has vaulted to the top ranks of writers in the English-speaking world…. Tristan has an appeal that transcends geography.” —Newsday

    “Carey’s always magical, absolutely lovable narrative voice makes The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith an important contribution to contemporary fiction…. No matter what he decides to write or how he decides to write it, it’s a priviledge to read him.” —Carolyn See, Washington Post Book World

    “Savage and hilarious…dazzling.” —The New York Review of Books

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