Illywhacker
by Peter Carey
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0702220000
- ISBN 13
- 9780702220005
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About This Item
University of Queensland Press. Good. 10.7 x 2.5 x 17.3 centimetres (0. Paperback. 1985. 600 pages. Cover worn<br>In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds a nd 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 pat riarch, ... .
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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- bookexpress.co.nz (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1417ae
- Title
- Illywhacker
- Author
- Peter Carey
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0702220000
- ISBN 13
- 9780702220005
- Publisher
- University of Queensland Press
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 1985
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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