| Description |
600 pages ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
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 - especially 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 |
| Notes |
Copy 3 paperback ed |
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Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 1985, shortlist |
| Subject |
Australian fiction -- 20th century.
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Humorous stories, Australian.
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Impostors and imposture -- Fiction.
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Impostors and imposture -- Australia -- Fiction.
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Older men -- Fiction.
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Older men -- Australia -- Fiction.
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Rogues and vagabonds -- Fiction.
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Rogues and vagabonds -- Australia -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100473
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| Genre/Form |
Picaresque fiction.
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Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0571132073 |
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0571179827 (Faber and Faber) |
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0702218782 |
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0702220000 (paperback) |
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0702227625 (paperback) |
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0702232599 |
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174166022X |
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9780571132072 |
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9780571179824 |
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9780702218781 |
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9780702220005 |
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9780702227622 |
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9780702232596 |
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9781741660227 |
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