Illywhacker by Peter Carey

Illywhacker

Peter Carey

600 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

fiction literary reflective slow-paced
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Illywhacker is a dazzling comic narrative, from the lips of the 109-year-old Herbert Badgery, the 'illywhacker' or confidence trickster of the title. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, peopled with aviators, car salesmen, Chinamen and i...

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