A long way from home

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Label

A long way from home

Statement of responsibility

Peter Carey

Creator

• trueCarey, Peter, 1943-

Author

• trueCarey, Peter, 1943-

Subject

• trueLiterary fiction
• trueAutomobile racing
• trueAutomobile rallies
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueAustralia -- History -- 20th century
• trueAustralian fiction
• Self-realization -- Fiction
• trueRace relations
• Australia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
• true1950s -- 1950 -- 1959
• trueHusband and wife
• trueMotorsports
• trueIdentity (Psychology)
• trueSales personnel
• Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction
• trueMultiple perspectives
• Historical fiction
• trueVoyages and travels
• trueREDeX Reliability Car Trials (Race)

Genre

• Fiction
• trueLiterary fiction
• trueMultiple perspectives
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueAustralian fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new 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 some place 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. A Long Way from Home is Peter Carey's late style masterpiece"--

Has edition

• Long way from home

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven

Tone

• trueStrong sense of place

Writing style

• trueStylistically complex
• trueEngaging
• trueWitty

Character

• trueComplex

Award

Loan Stars Favourites, 2018

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823/.914

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR9619.3.C36

LC item number

L66 2018

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult