EBOOK Illywhacker - Peter Carey

EBOOK Illywhacker
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Autor: Peter Carey

 Wydawnictwo: Vintage
ISBN: 9780307764256
EAN: 4997BC02EB
Format: 0,0 x 0,0 x 0,0
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Stron: 608
Data wydania: 2010
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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 characterespcially 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. Boldly inventive, irresistibly odd, Illywhacker is further proof that Peter Carey is one of the most enchanting writers at work in any hemisphere.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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