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Illywhacker

ISBN-13: 9780679767909
ISBN-10: 0679767908
Edition: Reprint
Author: Peter Carey
Publication date: 1996
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback 608 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780679767909
ISBN-10: 0679767908
Edition: Reprint
Author: Peter Carey
Publication date: 1996
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback 608 pages

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Illywhacker (ISBN-13: 9780679767909 and ISBN-10: 0679767908), written by authors Peter Carey, was published by Vintage in 1996. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Illywhacker (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.49.

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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—espcially 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.

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