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Peter Carey

Peter Carey is the multi-award-winning author of eight novels, plus two highly acclaimed collections of short stories and a memoir. His books have won or been shortlisted for every major literary award in Australia. He has won the Booker Prize twice – in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang and in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda. In 1998 he won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Jack Maggs, and again in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang. In 2007 he won the NSW Premier's Award and the Victorian Premier's Award for Theft: A Love Story. Born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Peter Carey now lives in New York.

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Title:: Illywhacker (MP3)
Written by:: Peter Carey
Read by:: Peter Hosking
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 2
Duration:: 25 hours 14 minutes
MP3 size:: 1.06 GB
Published:: January 28 2019
Available Date:: January 28 2019
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781489438478
Genres:: Fiction; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Literary Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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Winner The Age Book of the Year Award 1985
Shortlisted The Man Booker Prize 1985
Winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 1986

Peter Carey's brilliant, hilarious, Booker Prize-shortlisted Illywhacker is the novel that first brought him to international attention.

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.

'it is impossible to convey in a review the cumulative brilliance and accelerating hilarity of the prose.'
London Review of Books

'Carey can spin a yarn with the best of them ... A big, garrulous, funny novel.'
New York Times Book Review