Illywhacker
by Carey, Peter
- Used
- as new
- Paperback
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0679767908
- ISBN 13
- 9780679767909
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Illywhacker is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was published in 1985, short-listed for the 1985 Booker Prize, and won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and The Age Book of the Year Award. It was also short-listed for the 1986 World Fantasy Award. The novel tells the story of Herbert Badgery, self-admitted liar, trickster, and confidence man, the "Illywhacker" of the title (though "illywhacker" is also supposed to be Australian slang for "a stick for smacking a child with").
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Details
- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4135
- Title
- Illywhacker
- Author
- Carey, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Edition
- Fifth Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0679767908
- ISBN 13
- 9780679767909
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction: Mysteries/Thrillers & General;
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