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050	0	0	_aPR9619.3.C36 _bL66 2018
082	1		_aFIC CAR _2
100	1		_aCarey, Peter _d(, 1943-)
245	1	2	_aA long way from home _c/ Peter Carey
250			_aFirst United States edition
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2018
300			_a318 p. _c; 25 cm
520			_aA 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 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 school teacher 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 some place else. It is often funny, 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, 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.
546			_aEnglish.
586			_aWinner of The Booker Prize.
650		4	_aSelf-actualization (Psychology) _v--Fiction
650		4	_aSelf-realization _v--Fiction
651		4	_aAustralia _x-Social life and customs _y-20th century _x-Fiction
655		4	_aHistorical fiction
942			_cMO
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