An edition of Illywhacker: A Novel (1985)

Illywhacker

a novel

1st Vintage International ed.

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Cover of: Illywhacker by Peter Carey, Sir Peter Carey
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An edition of Illywhacker: A Novel (1985)

Illywhacker

a novel

1st Vintage International ed.

by

  • ★★★★★ 5.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 2 Want to read
  • 2 Have read

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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Vintage International
Language
English
Pages
600

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Subjects

Fiction, Impostors and imposture, Older men, Rogues and vagabonds, Middle-aged men, Australia, fiction, Fiction, humorous, general

Places

Australia

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Illywhacker
August 5, 2004, Faber & Faber
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Illywhacker
January 4, 1999, Faber Faber Inc
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Illywhacker
April 1996, Tandem Library
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Illywhacker: a novel
1996, Vintage International
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Illywhacker: A Novel
January 1992, Perennial
in English
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Illywhacker: A Novel
January 1992, Perennial
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Illywhacker
1991, HarperPerennial
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Illywhacker
1986, Faber
in English
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Illywhacker
1985, Harper & Row
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
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Illywhacker
1985, Faber and Faber
in English
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New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823
Library of Congress
PR9619.3.C36 I45 1996, PR9619.3.C36I45 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
600 p. ;
Number of pages
600

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL806819M
Internet Archive
illywhacker00care_339
ISBN 10
0679767908
LCCN
95043450
OCLC/WorldCat
33359949
Library Thing
51857
Goodreads
111103

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