Illywhacker
by Carey, Peter
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good/Not Applicable
- ISBN 10
- 0702220000
- ISBN 13
- 9780702220005
- Seller
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Buttaba, New South Wales, Australia
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Reading Habit (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AUSFIC1578
- Title
- Illywhacker
- Author
- Carey, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Not Applicable
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0702220000
- ISBN 13
- 9780702220005
- Publisher
- University of Queensland Press
- Place of Publication
- St Lucia, QLD, Australia
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- AUSTRALIAN FICTION, PETER CAREY
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Fiction; Australian Fiction;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.