Illywhacker
de Peter Carey
- Usado
- fair
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0702220000
- ISBN 13
- 9780702220005
- Librería
-
Wellington, Auckland, New Zealand
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University of Queensland Press. Fair. 18.8 x 10.4 x 2.5 cm. Paperback. 1985. 600 pages. Cover very worn<br>In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamon ds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narr ator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king of them a ll. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and ... .
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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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- Librería
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1356aa
- Título
- Illywhacker
- Autor
- Peter Carey
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fair
- Cantidad disponible
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0702220000
- ISBN 13
- 9780702220005
- Editorial
- University of Queensland Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Australia
- Fecha de publicación
- 1985
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction;
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
