by Peter Carey · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571144389
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«The Fat Man in History» is Peter Carey's collection of short stories, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (192 pages, in English).
The stories combine fable, fantasy and allegory in a disturbing near future with a contemporary feel. There are societies that play a genetic lottery to change bodies, landscapes that dematerialise, and a model more real than its original. A group of obese men marginalised by a revolutionary government plans its downfall.
The book was originally published in 1974. This Faber & Faber paperback edition came out in 2002; it was Peter Carey's first collection of short stories.
For readers of literary fiction and short fiction who enjoy speculative, surreal and black-humoured universes.
Peter Philip Carey is an Australian novelist who has lived in New York City for more than three decades.
