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9781926428604 (paperback)
1926428609 (paperback)
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Amnesia / Peter Carey.
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Melbourne, Victoria Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2014.
Description
376 pages ; 24 cm.
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Amnesia, Peter Carey's first Australian novel since True History of the Kelly Gang, moves between the critical dates of 2010, 1943 and 1975 to ask the most vital question of the past seventy years: Has America taken us over? How did a young woman from suburban Melbourne become America's Public Enemy number one? When Gaby Baillieux releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australia's prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse: an American corporation runs prison security, so the malware infects some 5000 American places of incarceration. Doors spring open. Both countries' secrets threaten to pour out. Was this American intrusion a mistake, or had Gaby declared cyberwar on the US? Felix Moore - known to himself as 'Australia's last serving left-wing journalist' - has no doubt. Her act was part of the covert conflict between Australia and America. That conflict dates back to the largely forgotten Battle of Brisbane in 1943, forwards to the secret CIA station near Alice Springs, and has as its most outrageous act the coup of 1975. Funded by his property-developer mate Woody Townes, Felix is going to write Gaby's biography, to save her, and himself, and maybe his country. But how to get Gaby to co-operate? What role does her film-star mother have to play? And what, after all, does Woody really want? Amnesia is Carey at his best: dark, funny, exhilarating. It is a novel that speaks powerfully about our history but most urgently about our present.
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Computer viruses -- Fiction
Cyberterrorism -- Fiction
United States -- Foreign relations -- Australia -- Fiction
Australia -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Fiction
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Australian fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
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Australia -- Foreign relations -- United States -- Fiction
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Australian fiction
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Computer viruses -- Fiction
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Cyberterrorism -- Fiction
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Australia -- Fiction
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Australian literature
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Children's stories, Australian
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Science fiction, Australian
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Short stories, Australian
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