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Carte Illywhacker Peter Stafford Carey

Illywhacker

Autor: Peter Stafford Carey
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Carte broșată
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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92.40 lei
In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamon...

Informații despre carte

Autor
Peter Stafford Carey
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Carte broșată
Publicat
1996
Pagini
608
EAN
9780679767909
ISBN
0679767908
Enbook ID
11455606
Editura
Vintage Publishing
Greutate
476
Dimensiuni
134 x 204 x 29

Descriere completă

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 patriarch, Badgery is a walking embodiment of the Australian national character--espcially of its proclivity for tall stories and barefaced lies. As Carey follows this charming scoundrel across a continent and a century, he creates a crazy quilt of outlandish encounters, with characters that include a genteel dowager who fends off madness with an electric belt and a ravishing young girl with a dangerous fondness for rooftop trysts. Boldly inventive, irresistibly odd, Illywhacker is further proof that Peter Carey is one of the most enchanting writers at work in any hemisphere.

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