Peter Carey
True History of the Kelly Gang
Pbk published January 2002 by Faber at £7.99
ISBN: 0571209874'I lost my own father at 12 years of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dear daughter you are presently too young to understand a word I write but this history is for you and will contain no single lie may I burn in hell if I speak false.'
In a dazzling act of ventriloquism, Peter Carey gives the
Australian outlaw Ned Kelly a voice so wild, passionate and
original that it is impossible not to believe that the famous
bushranger himself is speaking from beyond the grave.
Carey gives us Ned Kelly as orphan, as Oedipus, as horse
thief, farmer, bushranger, reformer, bank-robber, police-killer
and, finally, as his country's beloved Robin Hood.
in 1878 Francis Harty, a poor farmer, said 'Ned Kelly is the
best bloody man that has ever been in Benaila, I would fight
up to my knees in blood for him - I have known him for
years, I would take his word sooner than another man's
oath''By the time of his hanging in 1 880 a whole country
would seem to agree - and it is a measure of Peter
Carey's achievement that he has not only made art from
his country's great story but that he persuades us all to
understand the true measure of that 'best bloody man'.
Peter Carey was born in 1943 in Australia and lives in New
York. He is the author of the highly acclaimed collection of
short stories, The Fat Man in History, and six other novels,
Bliss, Illywhacker, Oscar and Lucinda (winner of the
1988 Booker Prize), The Tax Inspector, The Unusual Life
of Tristan Smith and Jack Maggs.
Ethan and Joel Coen
Coen, Ethan and Joel :Collected Screenplays
Pbk published March 2002 by Faber at £14.99
ISBN: 0571210961Blood Simple; Raising Arizona; Miller's Crossing; Barton Fink
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Steven DeRosa
Writing with Hitchcock
Pbk published March 2002 by Faber at £14.99
ISBN: 0571199909ed DeRosa, Steven
In 1953 Hitchcock took a chance and worked with young writer John Michael Hayes
.In Spring 1953, Hitchcock decided to take a chance and work with the young writer John Michael Hayes. The four movies on which they collaborated over the next three years - Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry and The Man Who Knew Too Much - marked a sophisticated change in style for Hitchcock, inspired by Hayes's exceptional scripts. Steven DeRosa follows Hitchcock and Hayes through each film, from initial discussions to completed picture. He also reveals the personal story - laced with humour, jealousy and frustration - of how these two very different men worked together in harmony until their relationship abruptly fell apart.