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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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The lost boy
His Illegal Self by Peter Carey 300pp, Faber, £16.99 The narrator of Peter Carey's new novel usually calls the boy at its centre "the boy". But the boy's name, Che Selkirk, isn't a mystery for long, and the reader soon learns how he got it. It's 1972 ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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His Illegal Self
This is one of the rare occasions in which I could not finish reading a book. I am not sure what it was; the story at the beginning seemed to be good, but then...It became so confusing. I could not understand what was happening; characters coming and going in a very blurred way. All the time, while ... (continue)
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His Illegal Self by Peter Carey Faber £16.99, pp300 It is 1972 and Che is almost eight years old. He lives with his grandmother - only she calls him Jay - in isolated privilege on New York's Upper East Side: no television, no other kids, no Grandpa ( ... (read full critics)