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Synopsis
While mainly concerned with the sordid adventures of con man Herbert Badgery, this novel is also a history of Australia in the twentieth century as seen through the career of the protagonist
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Review
The funniest novel of the year. (The Times)
It is impossible to convey the cumulative brilliance and accelerating hilarity of the prose. (London Review of Books)
Carey can spin a yarn with the best of them . . . Illywhacker is a big, garrulous, funny novel, touching, farcical and passionately bad-tempered. (Howard Jacobson New York Times)
The delight in physical detail, the forward rush of the narrative, nearly concealing the slyly perfect rhythm of Carey's sentences... I would do anything to have written them. (Nell Freudenberger Independent)
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As part of Faber's Secrets and Lies series comes a classic novel of deception and deceit.
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Illywhacker
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HarperCollins Publishers, 1985
ISBN 10: 006015425X
ISBN 13: 9780060154257
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ISBN 10: 006015425X
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ISBN 13: 9780060154257
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ISBN 13: 9780060154257
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