Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang: Introduction by Paul Giles

Description: "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

Review Quotes: Praise for OSCAR AND LUCINDA:

"It is Thomas Wolfe one is reminded of most when reading Peter Carey . . . They share that magnificent vitality, that ebullient delight in character, detail, and language that turn a novel into an important book." --THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"The stuff of shimmering, transparent fantasy, held together by the struts of nineteenth-century history." --TIME

"A kind of rollercoaster ride . . .The reader emerges . . . gasping, blinking, reshaped in a hundred ways, conscious that the world is never going to look the same again." --THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

Praise for TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG:

"A spectacular feat of imagination." --THE BOSTON GLOBE

"Vastly entertaining . . . As if Huck Finn and Shakespeare had joined forces to prettify the legend of Jesse James." --THE NEW YORK TIMES

"A bravura performance . . . Rewards the persistent reader with a powerful emotional experience." --THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

"The ingenuity, empathy, and poetic ear that the novelist brings to his feat of imposture cannot be rated too high." --John Updike, THE NEW YORKER