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02466aim a2200361 i 4500 001 3AB56A44955011E880A98A5497128E48 003 SILO 005 20180801010031 007 sd fungnnmmned 008 121004s2018 mdunnnn z n eng d 020 $a 150196822X 020 $a 9781501968228 028 01 $a C04892 $b Recorded Books 040 $a MdPfRBL $b eng $e rda $c MdPfRBL $d SILO 100 1 $a Carey, Peter, $d 1943- 245 12 $a A long way from home : $b a novel / $c Peter Carey. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a Prince Frederick, Md. : $b Recorded Books, $c [2018] 300 $a 9 sound discs (10 hr., 45 min.) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 500 $a Compact disc. 511 0 $a Narrated by Colin McPhillamy, Saskia Maarleveld, and Craig Baldwin. 520 $a 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. 650 0 $a Self-actualization (Psychology) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Self-realization $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Australia $x Social life and customs $y 20th century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Audiobooks. $2 lcgft. 700 1 $a McPhillamy, Colin. $4 nrt. 700 1 $a Maarleveld, Saskia. $4 nrt. 700 1 $a Baldwin, Craig. $4 nrt. 941 $a 1 945 $a cdab 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20180801010708.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3AB56A44955011E880A98A5497128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search