Download or read book Illywhacker written by Peter Carey and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illywhacker is a confidence trickster, and Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of this dazzling comic novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery travels across the Australian continent and a century in a picaresque novel full of outlandish encounters and dangerous characters. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, Illywhacker is a contemporary classic.