Illywhacker: A Novel
by Peter Carey
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Good - Trade
- ISBN 10
- 0060913312
- ISBN 13
- 9780060913311
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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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- Bookseller
- The Book Garden (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 899284
- Title
- Illywhacker: A Novel
- Author
- Peter Carey
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good - Trade
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0060913312
- ISBN 13
- 9780060913311
- Publisher
- Perennial
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- January 1992
- Pages
- 608
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