His Illegal Self by Peter Carey (First Edition)
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?
Format: Hardback | 288 pages
Dimensions (cm): 24.2 x 15 x 2.7 | 594g -
Publication Date: 05 Feb 2008
Publisher: Random House
Imprint: Alfred A. Knopf
Publication City/Country: New York, United States
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 030726372X
ISBN13: 9780307263728
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. No obvious damage to the cover. The dust jacket is included and in good condition (minor scuff marks along the edges). The majority of pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. The first page in the book (blank page) has a very small and very faint smudge on the top-right corner, and there are a couple of very small blotches of discolouring on a very small handful of pages. No missing pages.