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Illywhacker
A Novel
Rogues and vagabonds
Older men
Middle-aged men
Impostors and imposture
Australia, fiction
Fiction, humorous, general
Fiction
"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 pat…
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