A Long Way from Home A Long Way from Home

A Long Way from Home

A novel

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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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2018
February 27
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
336
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
4.8
MB

Customer Reviews

Reader895 ,

Awesome- beautifully written

Full of vivid tales, featured a subject I knew little about and which I found fascinating. A real page turner-couldn’t put it down. Almost finished it on a three hour flight. I highly recommend.

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