{"id":55585,"date":"2018-03-05T01:46:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T01:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55585"},"modified":"2018-03-05T01:48:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T01:48:08","slug":"a-long-way-from-home-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55585","title":{"rendered":"A Long Way from Home, A novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/562111\/a-long-way-from-home-by-peter-carey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>A Long Way from Home, A novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/knopfdoubleday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Knopf<\/a><br \/>\n2018-02-27<br \/>\n336 pages<br \/>\n6-1\/4 x 9-1\/4<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780525520177<br \/>\neBook ISBN: 9780525520184<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petercareybooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Peter Carey<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/562111\/a-long-way-from-home-by-peter-carey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/cover\/9780525520177\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two-time <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Booker_Prize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Booker Prize<\/a>-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australia<\/a>, 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Round_Australia_Trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Redex Trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Set in the 1950s, this is 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.<\/p>\n<p><em>A Long Way from Home<\/em> is Peter Carey\u2019s late-style masterpiece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Long Way from Home, A novel Knopf 2018-02-27 336 pages 6-1\/4 x 9-1\/4 Hardcover ISBN: 9780525520177 eBook ISBN: 9780525520184 Peter Carey 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,4405,6462],"tags":[986,13471,27955],"class_list":["post-55585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-oceania","category-passing-2","tag-australia","tag-knopf","tag-peter-carey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55586,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55585\/revisions\/55586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}