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Illywhacker
Peter Carey
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Description for Illywhacker
Paperback. Features vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Herbert Badgery who travels across the Australian continent. This novel is full of outlandish encounters and dangerous characters. It is overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 201 x 36. Weight in Grams: 430.
An illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of this dazzling comic novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery travels across the Australian continent and a century in a picaresque novel full of outlandish encounters and dangerous characters. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, Illywhacker is a contemporary classic.
An illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of this dazzling comic novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery travels across the Australian continent and a century in a picaresque novel full of outlandish encounters and dangerous characters. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, Illywhacker is a contemporary classic.
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571311569
SKU
V9780571311569
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Ref
99-98
About Peter Carey
Peter Carey received the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda and again for True History of the Kelly Gang. His novel, Parrot and Olivier in America, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2010. His other honours include the Commonwealth Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. Born in Australia, he ... Read more
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