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The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.

Peter Carey

Peter Carey Biography

  Nationality: Australian
Type: Novelist

Born: February 7, 1943
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