The Fat Man in History and Other Stories (28 page)

First Vintage International Edition, January 1993

Compilation and selection
copyright © 1980 by Peter Carey

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover by Random House, Inc., New York, and Faber and Faber Limited, London, in 1980.

These stories were originally published in Australia by the University of Queensland Press. “The Fat Man in History,” “Peeling,” “A Windmill in the West” and “American Dreams” appeared in
The Fat Man in History
(1974). Copyright © 1974 by Peter Carey. “War Crimes,” “‘Do You Love Me?,’” “The Chance,” “The Puzzling Nature of Blue,” “Exotic Pleasures” and “The Last Days of a Famous Mime” in
War Crimes
(1979).

Copyright © 1979 by Peter Carey.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Dwarf Music:
Excerpt from the lyrics of “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” by Bob Dylan. Copyright © 1966 by Dwarf Music. All right reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Carey, Peter.

[Fat man in history, and other stories]
The fat man in history / Peter Carey. —
1st Vintage International ed.
p.   cm.

Contents: The fat man in history — Peeling — “Do you love me?” — The chance — The puzzling nature of blue — Exotic pleasures — The last days of a famous mime — A windmill in the West — American dreams — War crimes.

eISBN: 978-0-307-76427-0
I. Title.
[PR9619.3.C36F37 1993]
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Author photograph © Mariana Cook

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