A Long Way from Home
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Narrateur(s):
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Colin McPhillamy
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Craig Baldwin
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Saskia Maarleveld
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Auteur(s):
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Peter Carey
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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 southeastern 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 schoolteacher 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 compelling, 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.
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- Nicole Price
- 2018-03-09
very poetic at times, but a desparate story.
I had purchased this book as it sounded like a wonderful adventure about a race around Australia. After many chapters going extremely in depth to acquaint the reader about what seemed to be rather random characters, there was a very brief segment about the race, then a focus in a completely different direction on only one of the characters with almost no closure or description of what happened to the others so painstakingly described. It felt like a lot of the ramblings about the Bobs was a waste of time. i was left disappointed for the time invested and with more questions than answers.
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