'Off Route 14' [short story] (unpublished) (1996)
- UQFL164-Series B-Subseries 31
- Subseries
- 1996.
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Five drafts, 2nd to 5th, Apr to Oct 1996, all signed by Peter Carey.
'Off Route 14' [short story] (unpublished) (1996)
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Five drafts, 2nd to 5th, Apr to Oct 1996, all signed by Peter Carey.
'Low flying' [storyboard] (1976?) (unpublished)
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Story board and 25 scenes with illustrations in 49 loose leaves with Window Productions at the bottom of each page and 7 unnumbered pages with layouts for various rooms. Based on the short story by Carey 'Happy story' written in 1973 which was in The fat man in history : short stories (1974).
'Learn to grow roses' (The rose) [short story] (1976)
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Typescript draft with emendations, photocopied on A3 paper, 9 leaves, undated with photocopy of the published version called The rose from Nation Review in 1976.
'Ladder' [short story] (unpublished) (unidentified)
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Typescript draft on yellow paper with red typing tape, with emendations, 2 leaves, last leaf incomplete (signature torn off). Author unidentified but yellow paper is often used by Carey.
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Working titles for the novel Jack Maggs include 'Mags', 'The Old Dart' and 'The Somnambulist'. This subseries includes drafts (complete and incomplete), off-cuts, proofs and research material. Jack Maggs was winner the Age Book of the Year Award for Fiction 1997, Commonwealth Writers Prize 1998, and the Miles Franklin Award 1998.
'In loving memory of Luke McClosky' [short story] (unpublished)
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Typescript, with handwritten emendations, 61 leaves, undated. With an attached annotated compliments slip to Peter Carey from Cait Buckley, The Almost Managing Co. Pty Ltd.
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Illywhacker was published in 1985 in Australia by University of Queensland Press. It has won a number of awards and was short-listed for the Booker Prize. This series includes typescript drafts for 'Pets' (Illywhacker) and Illywhacker, showing substantial revisions at every stage and the development of the novel from earliest ideas to finished form. Correspondence, notes, research material and index cards are included. Illywhacker has won the Age Book of the Year Award 1985, Fellowship of Australian Writers Victor - Barbara Ramsden Award 1985, National Book Council Award for Australian Literature - Banjo Award 1985, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction 1986 and Ditmar Awards 1986.
'Illusion' [musical theatre script] (unpublished)
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Comprises notes and typescript drafts, with emendations, for 'Illusion (A comic strip musical)', which was changed to 'Illusion (A treatment for a performance)'. Mike Mullins conceived of the concept in early 1980, and he and Carey worked on the script. Eventually Carey withdrew his name as author and retained only credit for co-writing the lyrics. Illusion, was performed as a rock musical at the Adelaide Festival of Arts in 1986. One draft has the (crossed out) title 'Getchor Illusion' for the Playwrights Conference in Canberra dated 2 May 1984.
Mullins, Mike
I know you can talk [short story] (1975)
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Two typescript drafts and two incomplete carbon typescript drafts of the short story I know you can talk.
'Hilder, the pet' [short story] (unpublished) (undated)
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Photocopy of unpublished short story by Peter Carey, returned to him by Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd.