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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.
His Illegal Self, like his other work, is an adventure story for the modern, tormented soul.” —Cathleen Schine, New York Review of Books “Carey is a thoroughly modern writer, smashing genre boundaries, ranging in tone from wild comedy to grim tragedy, viewing the past with a decidedly contemporary eye and firmly placing late 20th century adventures in social and cultural context.
10 de fev. de 2008 · Peter Carey Elena Seibert. The boy burped quietly in his hand. No one could have heard him but Grandma brushed at the air, as if grabbing at a fly. I called him Jay because I was worried for you ...
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A blind boy rattled dimes and quarters in a tin. The S train waited, painted like a warrior, and they jumped together and the doors closed as cruel as traps, chop, chop, chop, and his face was pushed against his mother's jasmine dress. Her hand held the back of his head. He was underground, as Cameron in 5D had predicted.
Two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey’s His Illegal Self crackles with passionate, electrifying prose and characters that leap off the page and into your psyche. Utterly captivating. It is 1972 and Ché, a precocious seven-almost-eight-year-old boy, leads a rather bourgeois life on Park Avenue with his eccentric grandmother.
His Illegal Self. by Peter Carey. For. the portion of the United States population under the age of 30 or. so, the anti-war activism of the 1960s and ’70s probably. seems as remote as some obscure medieval conflict. In recent novels. like Dana Spiotta’s EAT THE DOCUMENT and Neil Gordon’s. THE COMPANY YOU KEEP, talented authors have given ...
