Reviews
"Not since True History of the Kelly Gang has he seemed so on-song." --Andrew Dickson, Financial Times "His best novel in years, maybe decades." --Alex Preston, The Guardian (UK) "Peter Carey deserves the Nobel Prize in literature for lifting the heart." --Allison Pearson, The Telegraph (UK) "Evocative and exciting . . . Rip-roaring colour and action . . . this is the first time he's directly dealt with Aboriginal history, and A Long Way From Home is all the more powerful for it." --Lucy Scholes, The Independent (UK) (four stars) "An Ebullient comic caper. . . . Intensely engaging in more ways than one, [a] high-octane novel." --Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times (UK) "[An] on-the-road adventure, revisionist history and moral fable . . . a rich narrative stew." --Robert Douglas Fairhurst, The Times (UK) "A profound and poignant story . . . determined to unearth the richness of Aboriginal culture even while respecting its secrets. Those conflicting goals ultimately find perfect expression in Carey's strange narrative." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post "What a delightful writer Peter Carey is, and how varied are the delights he offers. . . . There's the supple and musical prose . . . filled with flashes of poetic brilliance. . . . . A Long Way from Home charts old territory and strikes out in new directions. It's one of Carey's best, and boldest, efforts yet." --Anthony Domestico, The Boston Globe "Peter Carey's new novel is a pretty remarkable beast. . . . Strange, tender, always somehow comical . . . A wild, strange, magical ride of a book." --Sam Leith, The Telegraph (UK) "A moving meditation on multiple forms of paternal failure and the culture of racism that have shaped modern Australia. To give away more would risk spoiling the genuine pleasures." --Patrick Flanery, The Spectator (UK) " A Long Way from Home is a novel full of riches. The road race propels the plot along, but it's really a book about cultural identity, about family, about the ability to empathise with others. As such, it's hugely relevant for our times." --Arminta Wallace, Irish Times "I couldn't have imagined that a car race could be so enthralling." --Tessa Hadley, The Guardian (UK) " A Long Way from Home reminds us that great novels are not ideological--neither exploitative nor excessively well-meaning--but tough-minded, complex admissions of failure, guilt and confusion." --Geordie Williamson, The Australian "A major work of fiction by the writer who will probably be regarded, in a hundred years, as the leading Australian novelist from the early part of the twenty-first century. . . . A highly enjoyable reading experience." --Paul Giles, Australian Book Review "This picaresque comedy goes thematically deeper as it heads into the Outback. The antic tone of this 14th novel by Australian-born Carey belies its serious ambition. The comic spirit slyly suggests Shakespeare, an inquiry into identity and the farcical human existence. . . . Carey's novel raises issues of culture and race that carry a thoroughly contemporary charge." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "One of Australia's greatest authors . . . Carey employs both a multi-voice narrative and a continent-spanning car race to emulate the disparate voices and fits and starts that comprise Australia's history. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal (starred review), "Delightful. . . . Thrilling. . . . One of Carey's best, and boldest, efforts yet." -- The Boston Globe "Propulsive. . . . Free-flowing. . . . Using a wild road race, [Carey has] found a journey into Australia's broken past." -- The New York Times Book Review "A rambunctious adventure story [transforms] into a potent exploration of racial identity." -- The New Yorker "A funny, humane, and enchanting book that is among his finest." -- The New York Review of Books "A profound and poignant story." -- The Washington Post "Highly entertaining. . . . Carey demonstrates an extraordinary ear for language." -- The Christian Science Monitor "Complex and powerful. . . . His best novel in years, maybe decades." -- The Guardian "Carey's eye for zestful storytelling is as sharp as ever --as is his ventriloquist's ear. . . . Not since True History of the Kelly Gang has he seemed so on-song." -- Financial Times "A rollicking adventure [that] leads to a startling exchange of worlds. Bigotries are confronted. Hidden histories are revealed. . . . A Long Way from Home is a frolic with depth, a flight of fancy with tough resonance." -- The Seattle Times "A major work and an exciting one. . . . Deep and affecting." -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Evocative and exciting . . . Rip-roaring colour and action . . . this is the first time he's directly dealt with Aboriginal history, and A Long Way From Home is all the more powerful for it." -- The Independent (London) "An ebullient comic caper. . . . Intensely engaging. . . . [A] high-octane novel." -- The Sunday Times (London) "Remarkable. . . . Strange, tender, always somehow comical . . . A wild, strange, magical ride of a book." -- The Telegraph (London) "We barrel along anarchically, marvelling at the elegance of Carey's plotting and the explosive joy of the storytelling. . . . A moving meditation on multiple forms of paternal failure and the culture of racism that have shaped modern Australia." -- The Spectator (London) "Intriguing. . . . Compelling. . . . Surely fiction's role is to provide both writer and reader with the kind of empathy only accessible via an imagination as generous and serious as that of a writer such as Peter Carey." -- The New Statesman "Breaks new ground. . . . There is a sense of venturing into virgin territory, of a country opening up, of a reckoning, of long overdue discovery." -- Herald Scotland " A Long Way from Home is a novel full of riches. The road race propels the plot along, but it's really a book about cultural identity, about family, about the ability to empathise with others. As such, it's hugely relevant for our times." -- Irish Times
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