A Long Way From Home (Hardback)
Peter Carey (author)- In stock online
Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together with Willie, their lanky navigator, they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive.
A Long Way from Home is Peter Carey's late style masterpiece; a thrilling high speed story that starts in one way, then takes you to another place altogether.
Set in the 1950s in the embers of the British Empire, painting a picture of Queen and subject, black, white and those in-between, this brilliantly vivid novel illustrates how the possession of an ancient culture spirals through history - and the love made and hurt caused along the way.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571338832
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 614 g
Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 25 mm
Edition: Main
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"...the Booker winner is at full-throttle…" - The Sunday Times
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"A pretty remarkable beast… A novel of startling scope and real moral and emotional depth." - Daily Telegraph
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