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His illegal self [ang.]

Autor: Carey, Peter

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When the boy was almost eight, a woman stepped out of the elevator into the apartment on East Sixty-second Street and he recognized her straight away. His Illegal Self is the story of Che—raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, he is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long-haired teenage neighbor, who predicts,

They will come for you, man. They`ll break you out of here. Soon Che too is an outlaw: fleeing down subways, abandoning seedy motels at night, he is pitched into a journey that leads him to a hippie commune in the jungle of tropical Queensland. Here he slowly, bravely confronts his life, learning that nothing is what it seems. Who is his real mother? Was that his real father? If all he suspects is true, what should he do? Never sentimental, His Illegal Self is an achingly beautiful story of the love between a young woman and a little boy. It may make you cry more than once before it lifts your spirit in the most lovely, artful, unexpected way.

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Carey, Peter

Jest dwukrotnym laureatem nagrody Bookera, którą uhonorowano jego powieści „Oskar i Lucynda” oraz „Prawdziwa historia Neda Kelly’ego”. Jego ostatnia powieść, „Parrot i Olivier w Ameryce” znalazła się na krótkiej liście książek nominowanych do nagrody Man-Booker Prize for Fiction, dostała się również do finału nagrody National Book Award. Peter Carey został także uhonorowany nagrodami Commonwealth Prize oraz Miles Franklin Award. Pisarz urodził się w Australii, lecz od dwudziestu lat mieszka w Nowym Jorku.

Źródło: https://lubimyczytac.pl/autor/24148/peter-carey

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