Peter Carey: The Genesis of Fame - Karen Lamb
Imprint Critical Studies ISBN 0 207 17642 6
83pp AU$ 9.95

This is a provocative, concise and readable account of Peter Carey's fiction to The Tax Inspector, its critical reception and his emerging prominence as an author. It features key interviews and articles about him, and includes previously unpublished material from Carey's own manuscripts and papers.

Karen Lamb was born in England and emigrated to Australia with her family in the mid-1960s. She has edited an anthology Uneasy Truces (Penguin 1990) and currently reviews for the Australian. She teaches at Melbourne University, and is completing a biography on the novelist Thea Astley.