A Long Way From Home

Author(s): Peter Carey

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Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal car race around the continent, over roads no car can ever quite survive. Set during the 1950s in the dying embers of the British Empire, A Long Way from Home is a thrilling high-speed story, illuminating a country's relationship with its own ancient culture, and the love made and hurt caused along the way.

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Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, and now lives in New York. He is the author of fourteen novels (including one for children), two volumes of short stories, and two books on travel. Amongst other prizes, Carey has won the Booker Prize twice (for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang), the Commonwealth Writers' Prize twice (for Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang), and the Miles Franklin Literary Award three times (for Bliss, Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs).

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  • : 9780143787075
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Hamish Hamilton
  • : 0.497
  • : April 2017
  • : 233mm X 154mm X 31mm
  • : Australia
  • : books

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  • : Peter Carey
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : 823/.914
  • : very good
  • : 368