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.

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