{"product_id":"9780525520177","title":"A Long Way from Home: A novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in south eastern 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 school teacher 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 some place 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Long Way from Home\u003c\/i\u003e is Peter Carey's late style masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47023714173168,"sku":"9780525520177","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780525520177_p0.jpg?v=1763710789","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780525520177","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}