Peter Carey Navigates Australia’s Past: my review of A Long Way From Home for THE MONTHLY

‘What a brilliant idea, to set a novel about discovering Australia and a self – and a self in relation to Australia – during the gruelling Redex trials, which can be read as an attempt, as Carey shows, to fabricate a kind of white dreaming track, both mythic and commercial, snaking around the country.’

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