Carey, Peter
by Illywhacker
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 006015425X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060154257
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About This Item
New York. 1985. August 1985. Harper & Row. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 006015425x. 600 pages. hardcover. Jacket painting by Robert Crawford. Inscribed by the Author. keywords: Literature Australia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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. inventory #15792 ISBN: 006015425x.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15792
- Title
- Carey, Peter
- Author
- Illywhacker
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 006015425X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060154257
- Publisher
- Harpercollins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1985
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