![]() "I would have to use four letters to spell his name. " set me on fire, seeing in its pages the very things that were scaring me to death in my American Life the dumbing down of culture, the reign of a frightening uneducated and intellectually incurious president," he said. "It makes me extremely happy, at my very advanced age, to share the list with so many vigorous, talented, original younger writers."įrequently named as Australia's best contender for the Nobel, Carey said he was inspired to write his new novel by Tocqueville's study of America's evolving democratic society in the 19th century, Democracy in America. The longlist makes me believe, if only for a week or two, that I may not be completely deluded," Carey told the organisers of the Booker prize in an interview. ![]() ![]() In my secret heart I imagined this was the best work I had ever produced. "Each novel is a long and lonely battle in what one hopes is the big game. ![]()
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