Reviews for Other sorrows, other joys

The average rating for Other sorrows, other joys based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-05-31 00:00:00 Greg Rider "Who cares about poetry? Fifty people in Australia? Ten with minds you might respect" - Peter Carey, My Life as a Fake I love Peter Carey. If every artist is indeed a thief, Carey is a literary larcenist. I've read three of his novels this year and all were fantastic and all seemed to be written by an inspired ventriloquist who juggles voice-to-voice, scene-to-scene, on a tightrope of his own fancy. He steals stories from the headlines, from history, and bends them and reshapes them to explore themes of art, identity, ideas and ideals. It is messy metafiction. It isn't absolutely fiction. It isn't asolutely origional, but it is entirely strange and magical.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-05-28 00:00:00 Simon Phillips An exceptional novel from Peter Carey. It may even be better than the brilliant True History of the Kelly Gang. I can not recommend it too highly. A dazzler.