His illegal self
By: Peter Carey
Edition: Paperback edition.
Publisher: Faber
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780571231546
Subjects: Grandparent and child; Fiction; Absentee mothers; Absentee fathers; Communal living; Australian fiction
Description: "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 neighbour 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 hippy 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?"--Publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: 2008.