Peter carey author interview with a vampire
Interview that she saw him as “a vampire.!
Over the past thirty-five years few authors have written with the skill, consistency, and imagination of Peter Carey.
Neil Jordan's $50 million film of Anne Rice's best-selling Interview With the Vampire is a major movie with major problems.The Australian-born novelists' ability to weave disciplined research and compelling prose, coupled with his sheer brilliance as a storyteller, has twice garnered him the prestigious Man Booker Prize, and his most recent novel, Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber & Faber, 2010) was recently shortlisted for a third.
Last week, I sat down with Peter to discuss his life and work.
Ben Evans: Do you find yourself, still, at this point in your career, getting better as a novelist? Can one continue to learn even after eleven novels and a mantle of awards?
Peter Carey: I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before. For instance, I am presently working a novel with two voices. One is a woman in London in 2010, the other a man in Furtwangen, Germany in 1854.
New Tales of the Vampires — () Publisher: Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives.
They will never meet. They will not fall in love. I