![]() ![]() In any case, writing about one place while living in another must come fairly naturally to a man whose life has been marked by a succession of small displacements. But Carey insists that its melange of financial corruption, racial tensions and poisoned family life is all taken straight from contemporary Sydney. So it was good to come to New York and to walk down the street and not understand anything.' Apparently some Australian critics, anxious to redirect the accusing finger pointed by his bitter new novel, have suggested that its bleak, ravaged portrait of Australian life must have been coloured by the notorious violence of the Big Apple. ![]() ![]() Carey has no plans to settle in New York, although for the moment he finds the change invigorating: 'The way I was living in Australia, things felt relatively known. ![]()
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