A Long Way From Home – Peter Carey

2 Responses to A Long Way From Home – Peter Carey

1. Mr Red says:

   March 14, 2020 at 12:01 pm

   I normally enjoy Peter Carey’s novels, but this wasn’t one of his strongest. It failed altogether to engage me, and I didn’t like the preachiness, as disquisitions about social injustice got in the way of the narrative. The characters were unsympathetic, and the narrative technique with the shifting but unidentified narrators was confusing.

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2. Mr Black says:

   March 15, 2020 at 11:06 am

   A thoroughly enjoyable book – I found it hard to put down, and really enjoyed that the start of each chapter required one to focus on where in the narrative one had landed. I learned a lot about Australia in that period.

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