5/17/2023 0 Comments Oscar and lucinda authorOf course, there was a certain innocence, lacking now, or at least Carey conveys the feeling of innocence in fine prose which gives the book a lustrous surface. Its theme explores and exploits, and to some extent explains, a time around the halfway mark of the nineteenth century, which bears an extraordinary resemblance to our own. What can be said is that it is a marvellous piece of storytelling, which doesn’t stop there. It cannot be said to be ‘better’ than either, if this mode of comparison can be used legitimately in a literary sense. In some ways it is as surreal as Bliss, in others as naturalistic as Illywacker. It is dense with incident and meticulously delineated characters who drop in and out of the narrative, always with a purpose. From short stories Peter Carey has proceeded to long novels.
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