PETER CAREY Amnesia 2014 SC Book

Description: Peter Carey Amnesia Trade Paperback Hamish Hamilton, 2014 Very Good Condition Book Publishing Details Author: Peter Carey Full title: AmnesiaPublisher: Hamish Hamilton, 2014Binding: Trade PaperbackEAN: 9781926428604Pages: 377Book ID: 241923 Comments & Item Features Category: Fiction, Australian::Australian Fiction. Language: English. EAN: 9781926428604. Amnesia, Peter Carey's first Australian novel since True History of the Kelly Gang, moves between the critical dates of 2010, 1942 and 1975 to ask the most vital question of the past seventy years: Has America taken us over? How did a young woman from suburban Melbourne become America's Public Enemy number one? When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse: an American corporation runs prison security, so the malware infects some 5000 American places of incarceration. Doors spring open. Both countries' secrets threaten to pour out. Was this American intrusion a mistake, or had Gaby declared cyberwar on the US? Felix Moore - known to himself as 'Australia's last serving left-wing journalist' - has no doubt. Her act was part of the covert conflict between Australia and America. That conflict dates back to the largely forgotten Battle of Brisbane in 1942, forwards to the secret CIA station near Alice Springs, and has as its most outrageous act the coup of 1975. Funded by his property-developer mate Woody Townes, Felix is going to write Gaby's biography, to save her, and himself, and maybe his country. But how to get Gaby to co-operate? What role does her film-star mother have to play? And what, after all, does Woody really want? Amnesia is Carey at his best: dark, funny, exhilarating. It is a novel that speaks powerfully about our history but most urgently about our present. 'Amnesia is a raucous meditation on dissent ...An ambitious novel that possesses some of the energy and thrilling abandon of Carey's early works, including his short stories. It stands firm in ways reminiscent of Illywhacker ...Carey is a writer who seems to want to celebrate, as much as to castigate, human flaws. He is sardonic and withering, but somehow optimistic. In Amnesia, the world is insidious and magnificent ...Amnesia is both familiar and a distinctly new moment in his career.' Patrick Allington, Australian Book Review 'The story of WikiLeaks as if transmogrified by Dickens and turned into a thrilling fable for our post-Edward Snowden era.' Luke Harding, The Guardian 'The novel is a wild ride ...Carey is Australia's lyrebird master of dialogue, perfectly tuned to every nuance, or upward intonation, of successive generations of Australian speech . Book Condition Report: Book Condition: Very Good Condition. Size of Item & Shipped Weight Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Free Shipping Australia Wide via Australia Post [2-8 Business Days] Firm Shipping Costs This Item ($AU): Australia Post: $ 0.00Australia Express Post: $ 15.00Asia: $ 35.00US: $ 35.00Worldwide: $ 40.00NZ: $ 20.0Notes regarding shipping • We ship to all parts of Australia using Australia Post • We ship within 1 working day of payment, we do not ship on Weekends • Estimated delivery times are as follow • Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide Metro areas: 2-5 working days • Other Capital & NSW, QLD, VIC and SA Regional areas: 3-8 working days • WA. TAS, NT and Remote QLD areas: 7-12 working days • International Post is also via Australia Post • If problems do arise, please contact us first, and we will do our utmost to resolve any issues. Customer Service Guarantee Please feel free to contact us anytime with any questions. Our pictures are actual product images The picture shown with all our listings are actual images of the item - they are NOT stock photos from some other source. Keywords this Item & Common Mis-spells BZDB43 Fiction; Fiction; Australian::Australian Fiction. Amnesia

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