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" Illywhacker : "
Peter Carey.
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BL
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978458
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b732828
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| Main Entry
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Carey, Peter,1943-
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| Title & Author
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Illywhacker : : a novel /\ Peter Carey.
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1st Vintage International ed.
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New York :: Vintage International,, 1996.
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600 pages ;; 21 cm
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0679767908
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: 9780679767909
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| Notes
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Originally published in hardcover by Harper & Row in 1985.
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| Abstract
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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 charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery is a walking embodiment of the Australian national character--espcially of its proclivity for tall stories and barefaced lies. As Carey follows this charming scoundrel across a continent and a century, he creates a crazy quilt of outlandish encounters, with characters that include a genteel dowager who fends off madness with an electric belt and a ravishing young girl with a dangerous fondness for rooftop trysts. Boldly inventive, irresistibly odd, Illywhacker is further proof that Peter Carey is one of the most enchanting writers at work in any hemisphere.
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Impostors and imposture, Fiction.
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Older men, Fiction.
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Rogues and vagabonds, Fiction.
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Impostors and imposture.
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Older men.
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Rogues and vagabonds.
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Australia, Fiction.
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Australia, Fiction.
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Australia.
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| Dewey Classification
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823
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| LC Classification
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PR9619.3.C36I45 1996
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17.97bcl
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18.07bcl
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