The Resource A long way from home, Peter Carey
A long way from home, Peter Carey
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- Summary
- Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in western Victoria. 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 whose job it is to call out the turns, the grids, the creek crossings on a map that will finally remove them, without warning, from the lily-white Australia they know so well. This thrilling, high-speed story starts in one way and then takes you someplace else. It is often funny, the 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 amid the consequences of the age of empires, this brilliantly vivid and lively novel reminds us how Europeans took possession of a timeless culture - the high purpose they invented and the crimes they committed along the way. Peter Carey has twice won the Booker Prize for his explorations of Australian history. A Long Way from Home is his late-style masterpiece
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 359 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143787075
- Label
- A long way from home
- Title
- A long way from home
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Carey
- Subject
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- trueAutomobile rallies
- Automobile rallies -- Australia -- Fiction
- Bacchus Marsh (Vic.) -- Fiction
- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHusband and wife
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMotorsports
- true1950s -- 1950 -- 1959
- trueAustralia -- History -- 20th century
- trueAustralian fiction
- trueAutomobile racing
- trueMultiple perspectives
- Nineteen fifties -- Fiction
- trueREDeX Reliability Car Trials (Race)
- trueRace relations
- Redex Reliability Car Trials (Race) -- Fiction
- trueSales personnel
- trueVoyages and travels
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in western Victoria. 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 whose job it is to call out the turns, the grids, the creek crossings on a map that will finally remove them, without warning, from the lily-white Australia they know so well. This thrilling, high-speed story starts in one way and then takes you someplace else. It is often funny, the 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 amid the consequences of the age of empires, this brilliantly vivid and lively novel reminds us how Europeans took possession of a timeless culture - the high purpose they invented and the crimes they committed along the way. Peter Carey has twice won the Booker Prize for his explorations of Australian history. A Long Way from Home is his late-style masterpiece
- Summary
- Irene Bobs, her car salesman husband, and a thrill-seeking quiz-show champion enter a dangerous race that circumnavigates the natural obstacles of 1954 Australia.
- Award
- Loan Stars Favourites, 2018
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10613899
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1943-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Carey, Peter
- Dewey number
- A823.4
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Redex Reliability Car Trials (Race)
- Australian fiction
- Nineteen fifties
- Automobile rallies
- Bacchus Marsh (Vic.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- A long way from home, Peter Carey
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 359 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143787075
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- Label
- A long way from home, Peter Carey
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 359 pages
- Isbn
- 9780143787075
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
Subject
- trueAutomobile rallies
- Automobile rallies -- Australia -- Fiction
- Bacchus Marsh (Vic.) -- Fiction
- Fiction
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueHusband and wife
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMotorsports
- true1950s -- 1950 -- 1959
- trueAustralia -- History -- 20th century
- trueAustralian fiction
- trueAutomobile racing
- trueMultiple perspectives
- Nineteen fifties -- Fiction
- trueREDeX Reliability Car Trials (Race)
- trueRace relations
- Redex Reliability Car Trials (Race) -- Fiction
- trueSales personnel
- trueVoyages and travels
Genre
- trueLiterary fiction
- trueMultiple perspectives
- trueHistorical fiction
- Fiction
- trueAustralian fiction
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