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Peter Carey’s contemporary classic is a dazzling comic account of one man’s unbelievable exploits across the Australian continent. “It is impossible to convey in a review the cumulative brilliance and accelerating hilarity of the prose" (London Review of Books)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. “Carey can spin a yarn with the best of them.... Illywhacker is a big, garrulous, funny novel.... If you haven’t been to Australia, read Illywhacker. It will give you the feel of it like nothing else I know.” - Howard Jacobson, The New York Times Book ReviewPeter Carey is an Australian author who has won the Booker Prize twice, for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He has also won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize twice (for Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang

Who reads Illywhacker (Vintage International)?

Author

Sir Peter Carey, Peter Carey

Publisher

Vintage Books

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9781299024953

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.77 / 5 (58 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14