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1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 03 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Narrated by Colin McPhillamy, Saskia Maarleveld, and Craig Baldwin. |
| Summary |
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 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. A Long Way from Home is Peter Carey's late-style masterpiece. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Automobile rallies -- Fiction.
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Automobile racing -- Fiction.
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Married people -- Fiction.
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Neighbors -- Fiction.
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Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Manners and customs -- Fiction.
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Australia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
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Bacchus Marsh (Vic.) -- Fiction.
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Australia -- Fiction.
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Literature.
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Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Baldwin, Craig. Narrator.
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Maarleveld, Saskia. Narrator.
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McPhillamy, Colin. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781501968235 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1501968238 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13535168 |
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