Illywhacker - Brossura

Carey, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571311563 ISBN 13: 9780571311569

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2014

Riassunto

"Carey can spin a yarn with the best of them . . . Illywhacker is a big, garrulous, funny novel, touching, farcical and passionately bad-tempered."—Howard Jacobson, New York Times 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 a continent and a century in a novel full of outlandish encounters and dangerous characters. Overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions, Illywhacker is a contemporary classic.

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Recensione:

The funniest novel of the year. (The Times)

It is impossible to convey the cumulative brilliance and accelerating hilarity of the prose. (London Review of Books)

Carey can spin a yarn with the best of them . . . Illywhacker is a big, garrulous, funny novel, touching, farcical and passionately bad-tempered. (Howard Jacobson New York Times)

The delight in physical detail, the forward rush of the narrative, nearly concealing the slyly perfect rhythm of Carey's sentences... I would do anything to have written them. (Nell Freudenberger Independent)

Descrizione del libro:

Illywhacker, from twice winner of the Booker Prize Peter Carey, is a picaresque tale of one man's exploits across the Australian continent.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0571311563
• ISBN 13: 9780571311569
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 576