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Oct 30, 2017 · A Long Way From Home is a story of an Australia long gone. It’s set in the 1950s, an era of unbridled optimism and prosperity, when there was full employment. Women were expected to conform to a domestic role, and Australia’s Black History was decades away from being being acknowledged.
Feb 27, 2018 · A wild, strange, magical ride of a book.” —Sam Leith, The Telegraph (UK) “A moving meditation on multiple forms of paternal failure and the culture of racism that have shaped modern Australia. To give away more would risk spoiling the genuine pleasures." —Patrick Flanery, The Spectator (UK) “ A Long Way from Home is a novel full of ...
Feb 27, 2018 · In A Long Way from Home, all this stuff—all the ways the past is made personal—churns around a question appropriate to a Canadian audience as well.” — The Globe and Mail “[Irene and Bachhuber], two rich, ripe voices, beautifully realized on the page, are the joy of the novel and at the heart of its achievement—just as Ned Kelly’s ...
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About A Long Way from Home. 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 ...
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A LONG WAY FROM HOME. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural 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 ...
A Long Way from Home: A Novel. Over the course of his stellar writing life, Peter Carey has explored his homeland of Australia in such highly acclaimed novels as Oscar and Lucinda, True History of the Kelly Gang and Amnesia. Writing at the peak of his powers, Carey takes us on an unforgettable journey that maps his homeland's secrets in this ...
Wildly inventive, funny and deeply moving, A Long Way from Home opens in 1953 with the arrival of the tiny, handsome Titch Bobs, his beautiful doll of a wife, Irene, and their two children in the small town of Bacchus Marsh. Titch is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia.
