His Illegal Self by Peter Carey (First Ed./Signed)
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 | 292 pages
Dimensions (cm): 24.1 x 16.3 x 2.6 | 582g
Publication Date: 01 Feb 2008
Publisher: Random House Australia
Imprint: Knopf
Publication City/Country: North Sydney, Australia
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 1741665353
ISBN13: 9781741665352
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 acceptable condition (the dust jacket has 7 different small cuts and tears). All pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, and no highlighting of text. The author has inscribed and signed the title page with a blue pen, but no other writing in margins. No missing pages.