# Illywhacker

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- Book: [Illywhacker](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-carey/illywhacker) ([Illywhacker.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-carey/illywhacker.md))
- Authors: [Peter Carey](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-carey)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7976-790-9
- Pages: 608
- Published: 1996-04-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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,...