| A Long Way from Home Contributor(s): Carey, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0525435999 ISBN-13: 9780525435990 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | War & Military |
| Dewey: 823.914 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.45 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |