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30 Days in Sydney by Peter Carey
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character with the help of his old friends, drawing the reader into a wild and wonderful very as bracing as the southerly buster that sometimes batters Sydney's shores. Famous sights such as Bondi Beac ...Show more
30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account by Peter Carey
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: The Writer and the City | Reading Level: very good
After living in New York for ten years novelist Peter Carey returned home to Sydney with the idea of capturing its ebullient character via the four elements. Here, he draws the reader into a journey of discovery and re-discovery. It offers you a private glimpse of Sydney and what lies behind the glitter ...Show more
A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together they embark upon the Redex Trial, a brutal car race around the continent, over roads no car can ever quite survive. Set during the 1950s in the dying embers of the British Empire, A Long Way fr ...Show more
Amnesia by Peter Carey
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
In AmnesiaPeter Carey, 'the greatest Australian writer' (Richard Flanagan), asks the most vital question of the past seventy years- Has America taken us over? When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse- an Amer ...Show more
Bliss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1981 by Peter Carey
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For thirty-nine years Harry Joy has been the quintessential good guy. But one morning Harry has a heart attack on his suburban front lawn, and, for the space of nine minutes, he becomes a dead guy. And although he is resuscitated, he will never be the same. For, as Peter Carey makes abundantly clear in ...Show more
Bliss: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1981 by Peter Carey
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
It takes dying during a heart attack for Harry Joy to realise that the life he thought was happy is actually hellish. His wife is a cheat, his kids are a source of shame, his company spruiks carcinogens. While Harry is resuscitated he will never be the same, for having seen his own misery, he can no lon ...Show more
Exotic Pleasures by Peter Carey
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Bks. | Reading Level: good-very good
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
It is 1972 and Ché, a precocious seven - almost - eight-year-old boy, leads a rather bourgeois life on Park Avenue with his eccentric grandmother. His parents are young radicals in hiding from the FBI – he has never even met his father and he last saw his mother at the age of two. Ché is ecstatic when a ...Show more