Illywhacker
Author(s): Peter Carey
"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.
Pages browned, dustjacket spine faded, upper edge creased, prominent tape mark to front
Product Information
General Fields
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- : University of Queensland Press
- : 01 July 1985
- : books
Special Fields
- : 8v0
- : Peter Carey
- : Hardback with dustjacket
- : 1st edition
- : very good
- : 608