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The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's Booker Prize-shortlisted Illywhacker, with a cover by Michael Leunig Herbert Badgery is vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch. He might very well be the embodiment of Australia's national character, especially in its fondness for tall stories and questionable history. As this charming scoundrel traverses the continent and a century's worth of outlandish encounters – not least with a genteel dowager fending off madness with an electric belt, and a ravishing young girl with a dangerous fondness for rooftop trysts – one truth emerges. Herbert Badgery may in fact be the king of all con men.
Bailed, had to send it back to online library and I will not be bothering to renew it. Humour was entertaining, narrator was certainly an illywhacker but too drawn out to keep me interested for 700 pages.
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