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LONDON — Australian writer Peter Carey moved closer to a literary hat trick Tuesday when he was named a finalist for fiction’s prestigious Booker Prize, an award he has already won twice.
Carey’s “Parrot and Olivier in America” — a U.S. odyssey inspired by philosopher Alexis de Tocque- ville — is one of six contenders for the $77,000 prize. Carey took home the Booker honor in 1988 for “Oscar and Lucinda” and in 2001 for “True History of Kelly Gang.”
The early favorite, according to bookmaker William Hill, is British writer Tom McCarthy, whose experimental “C” — the story of a technology- obssessed 20th-century everyman — has drawn comparisons to James Joyce. The Associated Press
