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Illywhacker

Illywhacker

by Peter Carey
Paperback
Publication Date: 05/06/2014
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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.
ISBN:
9780571311569
9780571311569
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
05-06-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
576
Dimensions (mm):
200x130x18mm
Weight:
0.46kg
Peter Carey

Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, and now lives in New York. He is the author of fourteen novels (including one for children), two volumes of short stories, and two books on travel.

Amongst other prizes, Carey has won the Booker Prize twice (for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang), the Commonwealth Writers' Prize twice (for Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang), and the Miles Franklin Literary Award three times (for Bliss, Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs).

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