His Illegal Self, Peter Carey
His Illegal Self, Peter Carey
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His Illegal Self

Author: Peter Carey

Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki

Unabridged: 8 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/05/2008

Synopsis

Che is a precocious young boy raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. Yearning for his famous outlaw parentsradical 1960s activists who are now among the FBIs most wantedhes denied access to television and the news. But he takes hope from his teenage neighbor, who predicts, They will come for you, man. Theyll break you out of here. One afternoon, the prediction appears to come true. Soon Che, too, is an outlaw, fleeing with the woman into the subway and pitched into a journey that leads them to a hippie commune in the jungles of tropical Australia. Here, Che slowly, bravely confronts his life, learning that nothing is what it seems.

About Peter Carey

Peter Carey is the author of nine novels, including the Booker Prize-winning Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. Born in Australia in 1943, he now lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba

During the heights (or would that be lows) of counter culture in the 1960s Che was left py his radical, yet Harvard educated parents to be brought up by his grandmother, until one day his mother swoops him and takes his 7 year old self with her; his happiness in being back with his parent slowly beg......more

Goodreads review by Suz

Another mis-matched audio read. I picked this up not knowing what else to choose. I have made a list since, of books on my tbr, so I will not make a mistake like this again. I do look forward to the 20 or so books I have noted down for myself. Literary fiction is not my choice, but I have wanted to......more

Goodreads review by Magdalena

Che Selkirk is a boy whose parents, members of the increasingly violent Students for a Democratic Society, have both disappeared, leaving him with his very rich grandmother. At the age of eight, a woman that Che recognises as his mother suddenly arrives and kidnaps him, taking him from New York to A......more

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