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| 1994, 2004, tracking, metabolism, project bar b-q, personal memoirs, steve vaught, box, fat man fed up, appreciation, webcam, games, the lives of the cowboys, man, aluminum, fitzgerald theater, garrison keillor, b 29 superfortress, cowboy suit, dwight, technology, din, | Though the first two stories get the book of to a slow start, the third hits the ground running hanford and hanford the book never looks back. "Do You Love Me?" is a brilliant meditation on the nature of love and memory; in a world where reality is based on the hanford census, what happens when the census is wrong? Buildings begin to disappear, quickly followed by people. All of these stories occur in a mirror world not quite our own, where, perhaps, Australia and the US share a border. Where, maybe, pleasure giving birds from another planet begin to pollinate trees from their homeworld, trees that threaten the very balance of life as we know it. Read this book. It will make you think. It will make you smile. It will make you cringe. It will make you want to read more Peter Carey. |
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| Not only does he create such fantastic settings and characters, but the actual ideas and metaphors he creates for each one are stunning and contain so much tracking meaning. There is the strange and absurd in his storytelling, but they don't distract you from the main idea, on the contrary, the strange and absurd give his ideas a real life of their own. Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful: Short masterpieces, November 11, 1998 Reviewer:jack.dawson@worldnet.att.net tracking (California) - See all my reviewsIt must be something to do with Australia. Shortly after Patrick White would win the Nobel Prize for literature, a young author named Peter Carey would publish his first book of short stories, quickly followed by another. Both of these books would be compiled in 1980 and released as "The Fat Man in History," which is, quite simply, one of the greatest collections of short fiction I've ever read, ranking easily with the best of O'Hara, O'Connor, Borges and Calvino. |
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