Peter Carey
Illywhacker
- ISBN 13:
- 9780571311569
- author:
- Peter Carey
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Faber & Faber
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2014
- Pages:
- 576
- Dimensions:
- 12.6 x 3.6 x 19.8 cm
- Genre:
- Fiction, Contemporary Fiction,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Illywhacker is a big, garrulous novel that effortlessly blends humour and pathos. Herbert Badgery, its 139-year-old narrator, is a master of reinvention, with a career spanning vagabonding, charlatanry, aviation, car sales, seduction, and patriarchal roles. This dazzling comic novel follows Badgery's travels across a continent and a century, filled with outlandish encounters and perilous characters. With its unique blend of magic, jokes, and inventions, Illywhacker is a captivating read that will keep you entertained from start to finish. A contemporary favourite among readers of fiction, action, adventure, humorous and literary genres, this novel is not to be missed.