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Illywhacker is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was published in 1985 to commercial and critical success, winning a number of awards and being short-listed for the Booker Prize.
- Peter Carey
- 1985
Hace 3 días · illywhacker (plural illywhackers) ( Australia, colloquial, rare) A small-time confidence trickster or seller of trinkets. 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 228: ‘What's an illywhacker ?’ said Charles. ‘Spieler,’ explained Leah, who was not used to children.
1 de ene. de 2001 · Mid-way through Illywhacker, Badgery (sort of) wins and then (kind of) loses a puritanically honest woman named Leah Goldstein, of whom he eventually and unexpectedly makes a lying addict.
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Definition of illywhacker noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Peter Carey’s contemporary classic is a dazzling comic account of one man’s unbelievable exploits across the Australian continent. Herbert Badgery, a 139-year-old car salesman and snake-fancier, is torn between the desire to be a good man and his need to attract people by means of his fantastic lies.
Illywhacker is the memoirs of this aged, but not too aged, mendicant. He describes a life of wandering about southeastern Australia, from adventure to adventure, from fib to fib.
Peter Carey: Illywhacker. Rightly described as a picaresque masterpiece, Illywhacker is the story of 139-year old Herbert Badgery, an “illywhacker” (a term for “a professional trickster, esp. operating at country shows”).
