14/02/2010
Mariella Frostrup talks to Peter Carey about his latest novel, Parrot and Olivier in America. Plus Liz Thomson on persuading celebrities to write, and books about the dispossessed.
Mariella Frostrup talks to Australian writer Peter Carey, whose celebrated novels include Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He talks about his latest, Parrot and Olivier in America, and reflects on why lonely children feature so heavily in his fiction.
Liz Thomson joins Mariella to reveal the ways in which publishers persaude reluctant celebrities to join the ranks of their authors.
And Jon McGregor, whose new novel Even the Dogs tells the story of an impoverished alcoholic, and Peter Kemp, fiction editor of the Sunday Times, talk about the tradition of writing about the dispossessed.
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Mariella Frostrup talks to Australian writer Peter Carey, whose celebrated novels include Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang.
Duration: 13:30
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- Sun 14 Feb 2010 16:0091热爆 Radio 4
- Thu 18 Feb 2010 16:0091热爆 Radio 4