Illywhacker
by Carey, Peter
- Used
- Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0702220000
- ISBN 13
- 9780702220005
- Seller
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About This Item
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
- Wonder Book (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- I11B-02335
- Title
- Illywhacker
- Author
- Carey, Peter
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0702220000
- ISBN 13
- 9780702220005
- Publisher
- University of Queensland Press
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- This edition first published
- 1987
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