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Carey, Peter, 1943-
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Married people -- Fiction.
Automobile racing -- Fiction.
Australia -- Fiction.
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Carey, Peter, 1943-
Married people -- Fiction.
Automobile racing -- Fiction.
Australia -- Fiction.
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A
long
way
from
home
/ Peter Carey.
by
Carey, Peter, 1943-
Random House of Canada, 2018.
Call #:
FICTION CAR
Subjects
Married people -- Fiction.
Automobile racing -- Fiction.
Australia -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780735273863 (hc.)
Description:
318 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"Wildly inventive, funny and profoundly moving, A
Long
Way
from
Home
opens in 1953 with the arrival of the tiny, handsome Titch Bobs, his beautiful doll of a wife, Irene, and their two children in the small town of Bacchus Marsh. Titch is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Irene loves her husband, and loves to drive fast. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal endurance race around the ancient continent, over roads no car is designed to survive. With them is their neighbour and navigator, Willie Bachhuber, a quiz show champion and failed school teacher who calls the turns and creek crossings on a map that will lead them, without warning, away from the white Australia they all know so well. Just like the novel, Peter Carey's new masterpiece, begins in one
way
and takes you somewhere you never thought you'd be. Often funny, the book is also and always a page-turner, surprising you with history these characters never even knew themselves. Its profound reckoning with Australia's brutal treatment of the continent's aboriginal people will also resonate strongly with Canadian readers."--From publisher.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
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