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	Illywhacker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Illywhacker is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey.
		It was published in 1985, short-listed for the 1985 Booker Prize, and won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and The Age Book of the Year Award.
		The novel tells the story of Herbert Badgery, self-admitted liar, trickster, and confidence man, the "Illywhacker" of the title (though "illywhacker" is also supposed to be Australian slang (strine) for "a stick for smacking a child with, (not allowed any more)").
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	Literary Encyclopedia: Illywhacker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Unlike these other two novels, however, Illywhacker is neither specifically political or directly allegorical; its depiction of Australian national identity is often murky, being tied up in a number of ambiguous and self-contradictory leitmotifs woven into the meandering first-person narrative of a self-confessed liar.
		Badgery is the “illywhacker” of the title, a slang term explained in one of the novel’s two epigrams as “a professional trickster” or “spieler”, derived – as Leah Goldstein explains midway through the book – from pig Latin: “Spieler is ieler-spee and then iely-whacker” (7, 245).
		Illywhacker thus draws on the Australian storytelling tradition of the yarn, a tall tale the “height” of which is an essential element of the audience’s enjoyment.
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	Illywhacker Diary
		Illywhacker is making her way slowly south from Cairns back to home base in Townsville.
		Illywhacker is currently anchored for the night as we wait for the high tide to cross the bar at Lucinda and enter the inside waters of Hinchinbrook Passage.
		Illywhacker and her crew are content to watch these comings and goings while we slowly make our own plans to cruise the outer reef and maybe sail north later in the season.
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	Span number 32 Fletcher
		In Illywhacker one metafictional device is authorial intervention - usually to label lies or liars, or to foreshadow future events or recall previous ones in the novel.
		The size of the country is suggested by the wanderings of Herbert and Leah (and later of Herbert's son, Charles), and ultimately the contrast between Herbert and Leah centres on her revelling in the freedom provided by openness while he seeks the comfort of confinement.
		In Illywhacker, Leah and Herbert separate when her estranged husband suffers a crippling accident and she returns to nurse him, and, in the interim, Herbert is sent to gaol for several years; but when they are finally reunited in Charles' pet emporium, nothing happens.
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	Illywhacker - Peter Carey - Vintage Books USA
		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.
		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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	Illywhacker - Home Page
		That we stayed so long in Alaska was in no small way due to the fabulous hospitality we received, much of which was thanks to John and Dolores.
		The burgee we both sported then had a special meaning last week when we were fortunate to have them aboard illywhacker for a cruise out of Townsville.
		We have moved into a 6th floor apartment overlooking illywhacker at her berth in Breakwater marina.
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	Peter Carey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carey later said he had asked for the meeting to be postponed, but the meeting was cancelled by the Palace instead.
		Illywhacker, shortlisted in 1985; Oscar and Lucinda, 1988; True History of the Kelly Gang, 2001; Theft; A Love Story', longlisted in 2006'.
		Peter Carey and J M Coetzee are the only authors to have won the Booker Prize twice.
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	Amazon.co.uk Books: Illywhacker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Illywhacker by Peter Carey (Paperback - May 1996)
		Illywhacker (Faber Library) by Peter Carey (Hardcover - 4 Nov 1996)
		Illywhacker by Outlet (Unbound - 1 Oct 1987)
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	Dirty Very Old Man
		By the time he has told his tale and brought us to the present, Francophilia has given way to whatever the word is for being dependent on the Japanese, and the dreamy reminiscence of Paris nights, 13,000 miles away, has become Robert Hawke-speak, the language of supersalesmanship and the current Australian Prime Minister.
		There is a strong whiff of this, a laboriousness of invention sometimes, an overfertility of metaphor, one dragon and one traveling Australian illusionist too many.
		Yet reading ''Illywhacker'' is not unlike spending a week in the company of the best kind of Australian.
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	Bibliography: Illywhacker
		Illywhacker (1986, Faber & Faber, 0571139493, L3.95, 600pp, pb)
		Illywhacker (1992, Harper Perennial, 0060913312, $10.00, 600pp, tp)
		Illywhacker (1996, Random House/Vintage, 0679767908, $15.00, 600pp, tp)
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	Amazon.fr : Illywhacker: A Novel: Livres en anglais: Peter Carey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
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		It will give you the feel of it like nothing else I know." -- The New York Times Book ReviewIn Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics.
		Boldly inventive, irresistibly odd, Illywhacker is further proof that Peter Carey is one of the most enchanting writers at work in any hemisphere."A book of awesome breadth, ambition, and downright narrative joy....
	www.amazon.fr /Illywhacker-A-Novel-Peter-Carey/dp/0679767908 (283 words)

	BookRags: Peter Carey Biography
		The paradoxical nature of Carey's novels, the merging of lies with truth, fantasy with reality, is strongly reflected in his novel Illywhacker (1985) which sold 60,000 copies, 20 times the normal print run of an Australian novel.
		The story of 139-year-old illywhacker Herbert Badgery is the story of Australia itself.
		His writing is outstanding in its breadth of scope and its cultural significance as well as its offer of a new vision, a magical reality, a vision through which the author becomes the ultimate illywhacker.
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	Living Writers
		He is the author of several novels and short stories, as well as a children's book, non-fiction work, and screenplay.
		Illywhacker was shortlisted for the Booker Prize --the highest literary prize in the British Commonwealth-- in 1985, but in 1988 Carey won the award for Oscar and Lucinda.
		In 1986, Illywhacker also won the Ditmar Award for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
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	Amazon.de: Illywhacker: English Books: Peter Carey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		Carey is a long-winded storyteller, but a very funny one, and the interweaving plot of Badgery, his mythical airplane factory, and the people who surround him is engaging and humorous.
		I also found the ending tacked on and hardly worthy of the gusto of the rest of the book.
		I recently reread Illywhacker, and found it every bit as gripping, entertaining, and hilarious as on my first trip through the novel, over ten years ago.
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	Amazon.ca: Illywhacker: Books: Peter Carey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
		The history of twentieth-century Australia is seen through the exploits and adventures of conman Herbert Badgery, as the 139-year-old ""illywhacker"" recalls his diverse careers as an aviator, car salesman, seducer, patriarch, and snake catcher.
		I CAN say that this book is the life story of a man named Herbert Badgery.
		Had Illywhacker been my first encounter with Carey, I would likely have enjoyed it more.
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	Aquinas College :: news
		Although Carey is not considered a science fiction writer, his novel Illywhacker won the Ditmar Award for best Australian Science Fiction Novel in 1986 and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel of the year.
		Illywhacker, The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith and Jack Maggs all won The Age Book of theYear Award.
		In 1998, Jack Maggs won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and in 2001 The True History of the Kelly Gang won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and Booker Prize.
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		"Illywhacker is such an astonishing novel, of such major proportions, that before saying anything else, one must record gratitude for its existence." - Geoffrey Dutton, Bulletin.
		Illywhacker is a triumph." - Curt Suplee, Washington Post.
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	Peter Carey: Special Bibliography
		Fletcher, M.D. "Peter Carey's Postcolonial Australia I: Illywhacker: Lies, Dependence and Political History." Australian Political Ideas.
		Peter Carey's Illywhacker: An Analysis of the Novel as a Work of Metafiction.
		"Metafiction in Illywhacker: Peter Carey's Renovated Picaresque Novel." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 14.1 (1991): 33-40.
	www.qub.ac.uk /english/imperial/austral/careybib.htm (1868 words)

	Literature & Fiction / Fiction / Illywhacker by Carey, Peter
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	Illywhacker - Books UK Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
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		First published in 1985 Illywhacker was further evidence of Carey’s standing as one of the foremost contemporary novelists.
		Inventive outlandish and very funny it is a dazzling feat of imaginative writing.
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	Peter Carey - A biography of author
		His first collection of surreal short stories, War Crimes, was published in 1979, followed by The Fat Man in History in 1980.
		He then wrote three novels, Bliss (1981), about an advertising executive who has an out-of-body experience; Illywhacker (1985), a huge vision of Australian history told through the memoirs of a 100-year old confidence man or "illywhacker"; and Oscar and Lucinda (1988), a complex symbolic tale of the arrival of Christianity in Australia.
		In 1990/1991 he moved to New York, with his wife, Alison Summers, a theater director, and his son, to teach creative writing at University of New York.
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		ReviewIn Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics.
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		For two weeks in May, 2002 Karen and Alan joined the Sailing Vessel “Illywhacker” owned by Australian friends Peter and Lyndall Aston in Cordova, Alaska.
		The Astons have been living aboard Illywhacker or its predecessor the “Dulcinea” most of the past 20 years, circling the globe more or less twice, and overwintered twice in Cordova.
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	Peter Carey
		Peter Carey was born in 1943 in Australia and lives in New York.
		The Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1985) : Illywhacker
		World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1986) : Illywhacker
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		Iffy : "something is bit iffy", its risky or suspect
		Illywhacker : a stick for smacking a child with, (not allowed anymore)
		Irrits : "you give me the irrits", you're extremely irritating
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