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You know what one critic here said about 'Illywhacker'?

He was also shortlisted in 1985 for Illywhacker.

Jeparit is the setting for Peter Carey's 1985 novel Illywhacker.

Mrs Pitman has also made no firm decision regarding The Illywhacker.

Illywhacker is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey.

His father sold cars, an occupation that looms large in "Illywhacker" and "The Tax Inspector."

The Illywhacker should take the Silver Buck Handicap Chase.

"Illywhacker," a finalist for the Booker Prize in 1986, showed Mr. Carey careening at full tilt and enjoying every minute of the ride.

Ian Adam, "Illywhacker and The Prowler: Settler Society Response to Ideas of History."

Readers of such previous books of his as "Bliss," "Illywhacker" and "Oscar and Lucinda" will recognize its hyperthyroid rhythms.

Mark Pitman, who ended the five win run of Young Hustler when riding The Illywhacker to victory in the £25,000 Cavalier Chase at Worcester yesterday.

The Illywhacker rates the main threat on his remarkable effort in the King George VI Chase, when he was beaten just 13 lengths in third behind The Fellow.

Who could resist the supposedly 139-year-old Herbert Badgery, the “ripperty man” of Peter Carey’s Illywhacker (1985), especially given Carey’s hints that confidence trickery is a metaphor for Australian history?

It is Wolfe one is reminded of most when reading Peter Carey, an Australian whose two previous novels, "Illywhacker" and "Bliss," were both finalists for Britain's Booker Prize.

In Peter Carey's book Illywhacker the last Golden-shouldered Parrot dies squashed in the vest of a smuggler on board an aeroplane as he tries to seduce the woman in the next seat.

In his earliest work - the story collection "The Fat Man in History" and the novels "Bliss" and "Illywhacker" - his cultural themes are in place but seem to float above the characters.

Frankenstein - the Monster's Story (1994), Theatre of Fire - written with Theatre of Fire and the Irish band, Illywhacker, as a spectacular outdoor performance involving pyrotechnics, circus performers and live music.

In a novel as big and sprawling as the author's native Australia, he chronicles the history of many characters - and his country - through the eyes of an aged illywhacker (that's the Down Under term for con man).

An amazing act of historical impersonation in which the Victorian bandit Ned Kelly persuasively presents himself as a folk hero and Australian freedom fighter; by the author of "Illywhacker" and "Oscar and Lucinda."

In "Illywhacker," people become pets in their own pet store and in his futuristic novel "The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith," he invented the country of Efria, an island nation with its own language and mythology.

But he seems more in control here than he has in any of his previous novels, including "Bliss," "Illywhacker," "Oscar and Lucinda," "The Tax Inspector" and "The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith."

Peter Carey took the chance when he went from the safety of "Bliss," a lovely but quiet novel, to "Illywhacker" and "Oscar and Lucinda," both astonishing and grand, each a heroic attempt to put into coherent patterns the ways of God, man and the land.

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 for "a stick for smacking a child with").

When the gelding was tried over three miles for the first and only time he finished a remote fifth behind The Fellow, Pat's Jester, The Illywhacker and Bradbury Star in the King George VI Chase at Kempton on Boxing Day.