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Illywhacker
de Peter Carey
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good Condition/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0702218782
- ISBN 13
- 9780702218781
- Librería
-
Picton, New South Wales, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
Univ. of Qld Press, Queensland, 1985. Second Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. 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. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 600 pages. Dust Jacket has some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 0702218782. ISBN/EAN: 9780702218781. Inventory No: 50909. . 9780702218781
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Bong Bong Books
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 50909
- Título
- Illywhacker
- Autor
- Peter Carey
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good Condition
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Second Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0702218782
- ISBN 13
- 9780702218781
- Editorial
- Univ. of Qld Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Queensland
- Fecha de publicación
- 1985
- Palabras clave
- BZDB3 Fiction; Unbranded ISBN: 0702218782 EAN: 9780702218781 Peter Carey Illywhacker
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Bong Bong Books
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Picton, New South Wales
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