![]() ![]() Here he slowly, bravely confronts his life, learning that nothing is what it seems. 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. 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. ![]() His Illegal Self is the story of Cheraised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, he is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties. No one would dream of saying, Here is your mother returned to you. That was pretty typical of growing up with Grandma Selkirk. 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 straightaway. Born in Australia, he now lives in New York City. His other honors include the Commonwealth Writer's Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Peter Carey is the author of nine novels, and has twice received the Booker Prize. ![]()
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