Illywhacker
by Carey, Peter
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0702218782
- ISBN 13
- 9780702218781
- Seller
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Rutherglen, Victoria, Australia
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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
- Tapsell's Books and Music (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4878
- Title
- Illywhacker
- Author
- Carey, Peter
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0702218782
- ISBN 13
- 9780702218781
- Publisher
- UQP
- Place of Publication
- St Lucia
- Date Published
- 1985
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts; Australian Literature;
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- Reprint
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