PETER CAREY, True History of the Kelly Gang and the forthcoming
Parrot and Olivier in America (April 2010)
I always want to give books by Richard Holmes. His Coleridge particularly. Now we
have The Age of Wonder. It is history, biography, the Romantics, and science.
It is also entertaining, well written, and generally improving. Who could ask for more than
that? It is disgraceful that I haven't yet read E.L. Doctorow's Homer & Langley. If
I am given a copy I'll pretend I bought it myself.
From the
December 2009 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
