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Wrong about Japan: A Father's Journey with His Son
by Peter Carey
- Used
- as new
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 1740513258
- ISBN 13
- 9781740513258
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Random House, Australia, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. As New/As New. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 121 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel & Places; Japan; Art & Design. ISBN: 1740513258. ISBN/EAN: 9781740513258. Dewey Code: 915.2045. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: RB11825. . 9781740513258
Synopsis
The recipient of two Booker Prizes, Peter Carey expands his extraordinary achievement with each new novel--and now gives us something entirely different.When famously shy Charley becomes obsessed with Japanese manga and anime, Peter is not only delighted for his son but also entranced himself. Thus begins a journey, with a father sharing his twelve-year-old's exotic comic books, that ultimately leads them to Tokyo, WHERE a strange Japanese boy will become both their guide and judge. Quickly the visitors plunge deep into the lanes of Shitimachi--into the "weird stuff" of modern Japan--meeting manga artists and anime directors; painstaking impersonators called "visualists," who adopt a remarkable variety of personae; and solitary otakus, whose existence is thoroughly computerized. What emerges from these encounters is a far-ranging study of history and of culture both high and low--from samurai to salaryman, from Kabuki theater to the postwar robot craze. Peter Carey's observations are always provocative, even when his hosts point out, politely, that he is once again wrong about Japan. And his adventures with Charley are at once comic, surprising, and deeply moving, as father and son cope with and learn from each other in a strange place far from home.This is, in the end, a remarkable portrait of a culture--whether Japan or adolescence--that looks eerily familiar but remains tantalizingly closed to outsiders.From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RB11825
- Title
- Wrong about Japan: A Father's Journey with His Son
- Author
- Peter Carey
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1740513258
- ISBN 13
- 9781740513258
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- BZDB1 Travel & Places; Japan; Art & Design. ISBN: 1740513258 EAN: 9781740513258 Peter Carey Wrong about Japan: A Father's Journey with His Son
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Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
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