Illywhacker

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ISBN: 9780571311569

Products specifications

Attribute name	Attribute value
Author	CAREY PETER
Pub Date	05/06/2014
Binding	Paperback
Pages	576

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Availability: In stock

Features vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Herbert Badgery who travels across the Australian continent. This novel is full of outlandish encounters and dangerous characters. It is overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions.

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An illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of this dazzling comic novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery travels across the Australian continent and a century in a picaresque novel full of outlandish encounters and dangerous characters. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, Illywhacker is a contemporary classic.