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Illywhacker
by Peter Carey
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0571311563
- ISBN 13
- 9780571311569
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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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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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- W112064b
- Title
- Illywhacker
- Author
- Peter Carey
- Book Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0571311563
- ISBN 13
- 9780571311569
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- This edition first published
- 2014
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