عنوان

Illywhacker :

(Number (ISBN

0679767908

(Number (ISBN

9780679767909

Number

b732828

Title Proper

Illywhacker :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a novel /

First Statement of Responsibility

Peter Carey.

Edition Statement

1st Vintage International ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Vintage International,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1996.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

600 pages ;

Dimensions

21 cm

Text of Note

Originally published in hardcover by Harper & Row in 1985.

Text of Note

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.

Title

Illywhacker.

Title

Illywhacker.

International Standard Book Number

006015425X

Impostors and imposture, Fiction.

Older men, Fiction.

Rogues and vagabonds, Fiction.

Impostors and imposture.

Older men.

Rogues and vagabonds.

Australia, Fiction.

Australia, Fiction.

Australia.

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Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

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System Code

System Code

Carey, Peter,1943-

Date of Transaction

20201203172758.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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