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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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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Illywhacker
• Author: Peter Stafford Carey
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 608
• EAN: 9780679767909
• ISBN: 0679767908
• ID: 11455606
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 476 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 134 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: April 1996

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