Illywhacker

Author: Peter Carey

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Price : $20.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780702218781
Publisher : University of Queensland Press
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Publication date : 01 July 1985
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size : 8v0
Author : Peter Carey
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Bind : Hardback with dustjacket
Edition : 1st edition
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Reading Level : very good
Pages : 608
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9780702218781

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Pages browned, dustjacket spine faded, upper edge creased, prominent tape mark to front

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"Carey can spin a yarn with the best of them . . . Illywhacker is a big, garrulous, funny novel, touching, farcical and passionately bad-tempered."--Howard Jacobson, New York Times 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 a continent and a century in a novel full of outlandish encounters and dangerous characters. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, Illywhacker is a contemporary classic.

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