A Long Way from Home

Penguin, UK, 2017. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. 360 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Penguin, UK, 2017. First Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in near fine condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing or wear. Spine is uncreased. . Edges of pages are lightly browned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter the 1954 Redex Trial, a weeks-long endurance contest of a car race that circles the entire continent. With them is their lanky, fair-haired navigator: deposed quiz show champion and failed schoolteacher Willie Bachhuber. If they win the Redex, the Bobs name alone will get them a dealership, and Willie will have recharged a life currently ground to a halt. But before any of that might happen, their official strip maps will lead them, without warning, out of the comfortable white Australia they know so well. A breakneck, often hilarious, eye-opening adventure that at the same time reminds us how white people took possession of a timeless culture - the high purpose they invented, and the crimes they committed along the way - A Long Way from Home is Peter Carey’s late-style masterpiece. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Short Stories; ISBN/EAN: 9780143787075. Inventory No: 24010259.. 9780143787075