His Illegal Self

Peter Carey

RRP: £7.99

Publisher: FABER & FABER

Publication Date : 05/03/2009

Paperback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

The latest novel now in paperback from the esteemed Australian writer, who twice won the Booker Prize for "Oscar & Lucinda" and "True History Of The Kelly Gang". Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, but he dreams of his parents, radical Harvard students in the 1960s. Soon he is an outlaw, pitched on a journey that leads him to a hippy commune in the jungle of tropical Queensland. 'A richly absorbing novel which can be relished for the beauties of its prose and the pertinence of its themes, as well as for the progressively taut pull that it exerts on the emotions' "Daily Telegraph"

Publisher's description:

Raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, Che, the precocious son of 60s radicals, just wants to see his parents. But first he must become an outlaw himself, fleeing to a hippy commune in the jungle of tropical Queensland, where he is forced to slowly, bravely, confront his life.

ISBN: 9780571231546