HIS ILLEGAL SELF
by Peter Carey
Always enthralling and original, Carey gives us a wondrous look back at a nearly forgotten time: 1972. Little Che Selkirk is just seven, his parents are American radicals and political fugitives; he lives with his Park Avenue grandmother, and a family friend has come to take him to "meet" his real mother, but things go very, very wrong. Che, whose childish wishes parallel the unfulfilled idealism of the time, falls in love with this surrogate mom, and their adventure together gives us one of the most touching and satisfying novels. (Other Books: Oscar and Lucinda; Theft)
Knopf Publishing Group: 978-0307263728
$24.95
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by Peter Carey
Always enthralling and original, Carey gives us a wondrous look back at a nearly forgotten time: 1972. Little Che Selkirk is just seven, his parents are American radicals and political fugitives; he lives with his Park Avenue grandmother, and a family friend has come to take him to "meet" his real mother, but things go very, very wrong. Che, whose childish wishes parallel the unfulfilled idealism of the time, falls in love with this surrogate mom, and their adventure together gives us one of the most touching and satisfying novels. (Other Books: Oscar and Lucinda; Theft)
Knopf Publishing Group: 978-0307263728
$24.95
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