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Illywhacker: A Novel by Peter Carey, Peter Carey
Illywhacker: A Novel

Peter Carey, Peter Carey

Illywhacker: A Novel

Peter Carey, Peter Carey

600 pages paperback 1985

15 editions

fiction literary reflective slow-paced
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In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and ...

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