The Resource A long way from home : a novel, Peter Carey
A long way from home : a novel, Peter Carey
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The item A long way from home : a novel, Peter Carey represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in St. Catharines Public Library.
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- Summary
- "A novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country-continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000 mile race, the Redex Trial. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in south eastern Australia. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the ancient continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive. With them is their lanky fair-haired navigator, Willie Bachhuber, a quiz show champion and failed school teacher who calls the turns and creeks crossings on a map that will remove them, without warning, from the white Australia they all know so well. This is a thrilling high speed story that starts in one way, and then takes you someplace else. It is often funny, more so as the world gets stranger, and always a page-turner even as you learn a history these characters never knew themselves. Set in the 1950s, this a world every American will recognize: black, white, who we are, how we got here, and what we did to each other along the way."--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- A long way from home : a novel
- Title
- A long way from home
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Carey
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country-continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000 mile race, the Redex Trial. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in south eastern Australia. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the ancient continent, over roads no car will ever quite survive. With them is their lanky fair-haired navigator, Willie Bachhuber, a quiz show champion and failed school teacher who calls the turns and creeks crossings on a map that will remove them, without warning, from the white Australia they all know so well. This is a thrilling high speed story that starts in one way, and then takes you someplace else. It is often funny, more so as the world gets stranger, and always a page-turner even as you learn a history these characters never knew themselves. Set in the 1950s, this a world every American will recognize: black, white, who we are, how we got here, and what we did to each other along the way."--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Awards note
- Winner of the Booker Prize.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1943-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Carey, Peter
- Dewey number
- [Fic]
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Self-actualization (Psychology)
- Booker Prize
- Automobile racing
- Self-realization
- Nineteen fifties
- Australia
- Label
- A long way from home : a novel, Peter Carey
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- 318 p.
- Isbn
- 9780735273863
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- System control number
-
- 279184
- 865593
- Label
- A long way from home : a novel, Peter Carey
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- 318 p.
- Isbn
- 9780735273863
- Isbn Type
- (hardcover)
- System control number
-
- 279184
- 865593
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