From the rear cover
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.
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- Title Illywhacker
- Author Peter Carey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1St Edition
- Pages 608
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date 1996-04-30
- ISBN 9780679767909 / 0679767908
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 8.03 x 5.26 x 1.14 in (20.40 x 13.36 x 2.90 cm)
- Reading level 1070
- Library of Congress subjects Humorous stories, Australia
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95043450
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- New York Times, 11/10/1996, Page 68
- Publishers Weekly, 04/01/1996, Page 0
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