'A tour de force' Financial Times
'The funniest novel of the year' The Times
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.
| ISBN: | 9780571311569 |
| Publication date: | 19th August 2021 |
| Author: | Peter Carey |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 569 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Action Adventure |
'A tour de force' Financial Times'The funniest novel of the year' The Times 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.
Illywhacker features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Action Adventure
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Illywhacker was written by Peter Carey and published by Faber & Faber
Illywhacker has 569 pages
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