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The two-time Booker Prize-winning publisher now provides us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, disclosing just as much about the country/continent as it does about three audacious those who take part in the infamous 10,000 mile race the Redex Trial. Irene Bobs enjoys fast travelling. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter into the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the ancient continent, over streets no car will ever quite survive. With them is their lanky, fair-haired navigator, Willie Bachhuber, a quiz show champion and failed schoolteacher who calling the converts and creeks crossings on the map that will remove them, without warning, from the white Australia each of them know so well. This is an exciting high-speed story that starts in one way and then takes you someplace else. It is often funny, more so as the planet gets stranger, and always powerful, even as you learn a brief history these characters never recognized themselves. Set in the 1950s, this a global every American will recognize: dark, white, who we live, how we acquired here, and what we did to the other person on the way. A GOOD WAY from Home is Peter Carey's late-style masterpiece.
