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''Illywhacker'' is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It was published in 1985, short-listed for the 1985 Booker Prize, and won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and The Age Book of the Year Award. It was also short-listed for the 1986 World Fantasy Award. 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"). Considered metafiction or magical realism by some, the novel is divided into three books of eighty-six, sixty-one, and sixty-six short chapters respectively, with chapters often shorter than a single page. It covers Herbert's life and marriage and that of his son, Charles, in a rambunctious and meandering style. ==Awards and nominations== *Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, 1986: winner *The Age Book of the Year Award, Imaginative Writing Prize, 1985: winner *The Age Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year, 1985: winner *National Book Council Award for Australian Literature, 1985: winner *FAW Barbara Ramsden Award for the Book of the Year, 1985: joint winner *World Fantasy Award Best Novel, 1986: shortlisted 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Illywhacker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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