For the first time, Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's dazzling stories are collected in one volume, together with three vintage stories not previously published in book form. 'The genius of these stories partly derives from their rendering of improbable worlds with the detailed and logic of our own... A marvellous collection.' - Sunday Times ABOUT THE AUTHOR Peter Carey was born in 1943 in Australia and lives in New York. He is the author of a highly acclaimed selection of short stories, The Fat Man in History, and four novels, Bliss, Illywhacker (shortlisted for the 1985 Book Prize), Oscar and Lucinda (winner of the 1988 Booker Prize) and the Tax Inspector. Paperback - 353 Pages - 12 x 20cm - 1996.