A Long Way from Home
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Carey, Peter
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McPhillamy, Colin
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Maarleveld, Saskia
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Baldwin, Craig
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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 southeastern 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 schoolteacher 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 someplace 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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Street Date:
02/27/2018
Language:
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ISBN:
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Peter Carey. (2018). A Long Way from Home. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.

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Peter Carey. 2018. A Long Way From Home. Recorded Books, Inc.

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Peter Carey, A Long Way From Home. Recorded Books, Inc, 2018.

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Peter Carey. A Long Way From Home. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc, 2018.

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