Illywhacker
by Peter Carey
ISBN: 006015425X
ISBN-13: 9780060154257
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
The life and loves of Herbert Badgery, a 139-year-old car salesman and snake-fancier, who is torn between the desire to be a good man and his need to attract people by means of his outrageous lies. The life story he tells includes bush pilots, fan dancers, Communists, schoolteachers, and exotic bird dealers.
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"The writing is continuously various and engaging, and always hovering on mockery." -- April Bernard
-- New York Review of Books
"[B]ulge[s] with action and fantasy, a picaresque narrative as lively as anything by Saul Bellow, though it also demonstrate[s] what is probably Carey's greatest formal weakness, a tendency toward soufflé in his novels so that the middle of the book sags." -- Peter Porter
-- Times Literary Supplement
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published date: 1985
Edition: 1th edition
Pages: 600
Publisher's Notes
While mainly concerned with the sordid adventures of con man Herbert Badgery, this novel is also a history of Australia in the twentieth century as seen through the career of the protagonist.
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N Y.: Harper & Row, 1985. .....nice copy with brodart jacket cover included.... First U. S. Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good+. ( more information) Offered by Thomas Savage, Bookseller (United States)
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Hard Cover. Harper 1985. Short-listed for the Man Booker Award. Worn Along Spine and Edges. First Edition. All books in VG or better condition. ( more information) Offered by Sixth Chamber Used Books (United States)
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: HarperTrade, 1985. First Edition. Near Fine/Fine. ( more information) Offered by PBO Books (United States)
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New York: Harper and Row, 1985 VG+ in VG+ dj.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Between 9 and 10 inches Tall. ( more information) Offered by Artists + Authors (United States)
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New York: Harper & Row. 1985. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 600pp. Blue cloth over light blue paper-covered boards. Fine in Fine dust jacket. ( more information) Offered by Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers (United States)
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ILLYWHACKER
Carey, Peter
New York: Harper & Row, (1985.) . First US printing. . Near fine in near fine dust jacket. . Carey's epic second novel (third book) which won several awards in Australia and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The title is Australian slang for 'confidence man' or trickster. Wraparound dust jacket art by Robert Crawford. 600 pp. ( more information) Offered by bookfever.com (United States)
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ILLYWHACKER
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ILLYWHACKER
Carey, Peter
New York. 1985. Harper & Row. 1st American Edition. Very Good In Dustjacket. Inscribed By The Author. pages: 600 pages. Cover: Jacket painting by Robert Crawford. keywords: Literature Australia . ISBN: 006015425x. August 1985. In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey’s uproarious novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery is a walking embodiment of the Australian national character - especially of its proclivity for tall stories and barefaced lies. As Carey follows this charming scoundrel across a continent and a century, he creates a crazy quilt of outlandish encounters, with characters that include a genteel dowager who fends off madness with an electric belt and a ravishing young girl with a dangerous fondness for rooftop trysts. Boldly inventive, irresistibly odd, Illywhacker is further proof that Peter Carey is one of the most enchanting writers at work in any hemisphere. keywords: Literature Australia inventory # 15803. ISBN: 006015425x. ( more information) Offered by Zeno's (United States)
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