ILLYWHACKER
by Carey, Peter
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0702220000
- ISBN 13
- 9780702220005
- Seller
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WARRNAMBOOL, Victoria, Australia
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Synopsis
Illywhacker is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was published in 1985, short-listed for the 1985 Booker Prize, and won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and The Age Book of the Year Award. It was also short-listed for the 1986 World Fantasy Award. The novel tells the story of Herbert Badgery, self-admitted liar, trickster, and confidence man, the "Illywhacker" of the title (though "illywhacker" is also supposed to be Australian slang for "a stick for smacking a child with").
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Details
- Bookseller
- M & A Simper Bookbinders (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11619
- Title
- ILLYWHACKER
- Author
- Carey, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Paper Back
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0702220000
- ISBN 13
- 9780702220005
- Publisher
- University of Queensland Press
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- 0702220000
- Bookseller catalogs
- Australian Literature; All;
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