I am no expert on anything Australia, but I’ve read enough Peter Carey novels to talk about some of the things he’s concerned with in his fiction. Modes of storytelling is a big one, and of course, official versus unofficial discourse in that story telling. The first book of his I read was Jack Maggs which is a retelling of Great Expectations where we see Magwitch recast as an early Australian, and talking back to the ways in which he’s treated in the novel. This novel is […]