This volume explores Carey's position not only as a great entertainer but also as a disturbing post-colonial writer, setting his work in relation to his life and his influences. Woodcock, using previously neglected radio interviews amongst other documents, sees Carey as a fictional shadow-maker, whose characters often inhabit the unpredictable borderlands of experience. Commenting on the fabulist, surrealist and postmodernist elements, the author also stresses the political concerns of Carey's fiction, and presents him as a hybrid writer who relishes the diversity of his varied imagining and his own capacity to take risks with his fiction.
- ISBN10 0719043603
- ISBN13 9780719043604
- Publish Date 19 December 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 April 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Manchester University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English