Illywhacker

Illywhacker

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Author: Peter Carey
Binding: Hardback
Published: University of Queensland Press, 1985

Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings

Herbert Badgery is vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch. He might very well be the embodiment of Australia's national character, especially in its fondness for tall stories and questionable history. As this charming scoundrel traverses the continent and a century's worth of outlandish encounters - not least with a genteel dowager fending off madness with an electric belt, and a ravishing young girl with a dangerous fondness for rooftop trysts - one truth emerges. Herbert Badgery may in fact be the king of all con men.

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Description

Author: Peter Carey
Binding: Hardback
Published: University of Queensland Press, 1985

Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: No markings

Herbert Badgery is vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch. He might very well be the embodiment of Australia's national character, especially in its fondness for tall stories and questionable history. As this charming scoundrel traverses the continent and a century's worth of outlandish encounters - not least with a genteel dowager fending off madness with an electric belt, and a ravishing young girl with a dangerous fondness for rooftop trysts - one truth emerges. Herbert Badgery may in fact be the king of all con men.