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Issue Details: First known date: 1985... 1985 Illywhacker
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In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, 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. (Source: Trove)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      Faber ,
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      Extent: 600p.
      ISBN: 0571132073
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      Harper and Row ,
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      Extent: 600p.
      Edition info: 1st U.S. ed.
      ISBN: 006015425X
    • London,
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      Faber ,
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      Extent: 450p.
      Reprinted: 1986
      ISBN: 0571139493 (pbk)
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      Vintage ,
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      Extent: 608p.
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      • Published 30 April 1996
      ISBN: 9780679767909
      Series: y separately published work icon Vintage International New York (City) : Vintage , 1993- 19532994 1993 series - publisher novel

      'William Faulkner, Philip Roth, Alice Munro, Thomas Mann, Doris Lessing, Albert Camus, V.S. Naipaul, Gabriel García Márquez, Salman Rushdie, Joan Didion, and Cormac McCarthy, among many others: Vintage International is devoted to publishing the best writing of the past century from the world over. Offering both classic and modern fiction and literary nonfiction in elegant editions, Vintage International aims to provide readers with world-class writing that has stood the test of time and essential works by the preeminent authors of today.'

      Source: Vintage.

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      Faber ,
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      Extent: 576p.
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      • Published 7 July 2011
      ISBN: 9780571275595
    • London,
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      Faber ,
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      Extent: 576p.
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      • Published 5 June 2014
      ISBN: 9780571311569
    • Scoresby, Ferntree Gully area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2015 .
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      Extent: 832p.
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      ISBN: 9780143571261
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2020 .
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      Extent: 832p.
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      • Published 3rd March 2020
      ISBN: 9781760896539
Language: German
    • Stuttgart,
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      Klett-Cotta ,
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      Extent: 687p.
      ISBN: 3608956344
    • Stuttgart,
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      Klett-Cotta ,
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      Extent: 687p.
      ISBN: 3608959467
    • Reinbek,
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      Rowohlt ,
      1994 .
      Extent: 686p.
      ISBN: 3499134608

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Works about this Work

The Postcolonial Turn and the Fantastic Iva Polak , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Futuristic Worlds in Australian Aboriginal Fiction 2017; (p. 71-95)

'Doris Bachmann-Medick maintains that the period since the 1970s has seen a series of “cultural turns”, that is, theoretical and cultural reorientations, which have “shifted perspectives, introduced new focuses and, as a result, opened previously unexamined cross-disciplinary fields of inquiry” (1). One such turn is the constitution of the postcolonial theory of culture, which has “shed light on the power of hegemonic cultures to shape discourse while illuminating the increasingly autonomous self-representation of previously marginalized societies, ethnic groups and literatures” (Bachmann-Medick 132).'  (Introduction)

Southeast Asian Australian Women’s Fiction and the Globalization of “Magic” Paul Giffard-Foret , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing , vol. 50 no. 6 2014; (p. 675-687)
'This article discusses the evolution of magical realism in relation to the postcolonial by looking at three contemporary Australian women authors originating from Southeast Asia. Besides extending magical realism to the Australian and Southeast Asian regions, these authors show the contours of the literary mode to be flexible, as magical realism has moved from being a localized Latin American trend to assuming a significant status on the international market. Concomitantly, their fiction develops various forms of a postcolonial aesthetics of “home” – forms that are neither pure nor authentic, but always-already partial and complicit with orientalist practices, in particular in light of new fault lines opened up in the wake of decolonization. This is one reason why their fiction embraces magical realist modes of representation: as an ambivalent literary mode, straddling the “actual” and the “imaginary”, and situated in-between resistance to, and collaboration with, Eurocentric modes of representation, magical realism retains a strong political relevance in a globalized, postcolonial era.' (Publication abstract)
On the Genealogy of Democracy : Reading Peter Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America Peter Mathews , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , vol. 27 no. 2 2012; (p. 68-80)
Little White Lies : The Everyday Decptions that Bring Us Undone Andrew Stephens , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 4 June 2011; (p. 12-14)
'From the well-intentioned falsehood to the baldfaced whopper, untruths find their way into every conversation. Social bonds are sealed on insincerity and punishments avoided in the blink of an eye. But as we stray from the path of absolute honesty, do our little white lies make frauds of us all.' Source: Andrew Stephens.
Revisiting Australia : Historical Fabrications, Telling Histories/Stories and Other Colonial Delusions in Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake Sarah Zapata , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 219-236)
[Review] Jack Maggs Melissa Bellanta , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , April no. 14 2003;

— Review of Jack Maggs Peter Carey , 1997 single work novel ; The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith Peter Carey , 1994 single work novel ; Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey , 1988 single work novel ; Illywhacker Peter Carey , 1985 single work novel ; The Tax Inspector Peter Carey , 1991 single work novel ; Collected Stories Peter Carey , 1994 selected work short story
[Review] Palomino [et al] P. Lewis , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: London Magazine , vol. 25 no. 1-2 1985; (p. 148-152)

— Review of Palomino Elizabeth Jolley , 1980 single work novel ; The Doubleman Christopher Koch , 1985 single work novel ; Illywhacker Peter Carey , 1985 single work novel
A Dealer in Dreams, Visions, Images and Lies John Hanrahan , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 July 1985; (p. 13)

— Review of Illywhacker Peter Carey , 1985 single work novel
Illywhacker : A Great Short Story Trapped in a Fat Novel Elizabeth Webby , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13 July 1985; (p. 47)

— Review of Illywhacker Peter Carey , 1985 single work novel
Peter Carey's "Illywhacker"? Annette Stewart , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , December vol. 29 no. 12 1985; (p. 86-87)

— Review of Illywhacker Peter Carey , 1985 single work novel
Ahasverus on the Walkabout : The Motif of the Wandering Jew in Contemporary Australian Fiction Gloria Gebhardt , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 16 no. 1 2002; (p. 11-16)
Parodying the Picaresque in Peter Carey's Illywhacker M. D. Fletcher , 1995-1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Commonwealth Review , vol. 7 no. 1 1995-1996; (p. 113-116)
'Reading the 'Remembered World' : Carceral Architecture and Cultural Mnemonics in Peter Carey's Illywhacker Cliff Lobe , 2002 single work criticism
— Appears in: Mosaic , December vol. 35 no. 4 2002; (p. 17-34)
Author's abstract: This essay explores linkages between architecture and memory in the context of Australia's penal-colonial past and postcolonial present. Examining how built spaces 'house' the past, the essay reads the carceral architecture in Peter Carey's Illywhacker as a counter-memory, a haunting reminder that the edifice of Australia has been built on (cryptic) lies
y separately published work icon Geschichte erzahlen: Untersuchungen zur Behandlung von Geschichte und nationaler Identitat in australischer Gegenwartsliteratur Henrike Wenzel , Munster : Lit Verlag , 2003 Z1172475 2003 single work criticism
Towards an Alphabet of Australian Culture : Peter Carey's Mythistorical Novels Andreas Gaile , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: Fabulating Beauty : Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey 2005; (p. 33-51)
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