A Long Way from Home

by Carey, Peter
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ISBN: 9780525435990
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Overview

Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter the 1954 Redex Trial, a weeks-long endurance contest of a car race that circles the entire continent. With them is their lanky, fair-haired navigator: deposed quiz show champion and failed schoolteacher Willie Bachhuber. If they win the Redex, the Bobs name alone will get them a dealership, and Willie will have recharged a life currently ground to a halt. But before any of that might happen, their official strip maps will lead them, without warning, out of the comfortable white Australia they know so well. A breakneck, often hilarious, eye-opening adventure that at the same time reminds us how white people took possession of a timeless culture--the high purpose they invented, and the crimes they committed along the way--A Long Way from Home is Peter Carey's late-style masterpiece.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Carey, Peter
  • ISBN: 9780525435990
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.90 x 0.90
  • Number Of Pages: 336
  • Publication Year: 2019

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