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A long way from home, Peter Carey

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"The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country-continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000 mile race, the Redex Trial. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in south eastern Australia. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the ancient continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive. With them is their lanky fair-haired navigator, Willie Bachhuber, a quiz show champion and failed school teacher who calls the turns and creeks crossings on a map that will remove them, without warning, from the white Australia they all know so well. This is a thrilling high speed story that starts in one way, and then takes you some place else. It is often funny, more so as the world gets stranger, and always a page-turner even as you learn a history these characters never knew themselves. Set in the 1950s, this a world every American will recognize: black, white, who we are, how we got here, and what we did to each other along the way. A Long Way from Home is Peter Carey's late style masterpiece"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First American edition.
Extent
318 pages
Isbn
9780525520177
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A long way from home
Title
A long way from home
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Peter Carey
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Subject
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Language
eng
Summary
"The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country-continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000 mile race, the Redex Trial. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in south eastern Australia. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the ancient continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive. With them is their lanky fair-haired navigator, Willie Bachhuber, a quiz show champion and failed school teacher who calls the turns and creeks crossings on a map that will remove them, without warning, from the white Australia they all know so well. This is a thrilling high speed story that starts in one way, and then takes you some place else. It is often funny, more so as the world gets stranger, and always a page-turner even as you learn a history these characters never knew themselves. Set in the 1950s, this a world every American will recognize: black, white, who we are, how we got here, and what we did to each other along the way. A Long Way from Home is Peter Carey's late style masterpiece"--
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1943-
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Carey, Peter
Dewey number
823/.914
Index
no index present
LC call number
PR9619.3.C36
LC item number
L66 2018
Literary form
fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Self-actualization (Psychology)
  • Self-realization
  • Australia
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A long way from home, Peter Carey
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rdacontent
Control code
2017033316
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First American edition.
Extent
318 pages
Isbn
9780525520177
Isbn Type
(hardcover : acid-free paper)
Lccn
2017033316
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
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  • (Sirsi) i9780525520177
  • (Sirsi) b1514218
Label
A long way from home, Peter Carey
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
2017033316
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First American edition.
Extent
318 pages
Isbn
9780525520177
Isbn Type
(hardcover : acid-free paper)
Lccn
2017033316
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
  • (Sirsi) i9780525520177
  • (Sirsi) b1514218

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