Illywhacker
by Peter Carey
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0702218782
- ISBN 13
- 9780702218781
- Seller
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Picton, New South Wales, Australia
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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
- Bong Bong Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50909
- Title
- Illywhacker
- Author
- Peter Carey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0702218782
- ISBN 13
- 9780702218781
- Publisher
- Univ. of Qld Press
- Place of Publication
- Queensland
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- BZDB3 Fiction; Unbranded ISBN: 0702218782 EAN: 9780702218781 Peter Carey Illywhacker
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