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30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account by Peter Carey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Writer and the City
Peter Carey captures our imagination with a brilliant and unexpected portrait of Sydney. In the midst of the 2000 Olympic games, Australia native Peter Carey returns to Sydney after a seventeen-year absence. Examining the urban landscape as both a tourist and a prodigal son, Carey structures his account ...Show more
A Long Way From Home by Peter Carey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literature | 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
Oscar and Lucinda: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1989 by Peter Carey
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning Oscar and Lucinda, with a cover by Michael LeunigOscar Hopkins, the hydrophobic, noisy-kneed son of a preacher, renounces his father's stern religion in favour of the Anglican Church. Lucinda Leplastrier, a frizzy-haired heiress, impulsivel ...Show more
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