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  1. Apr 22, 2015 · In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, editor of a London poetry journal, meets the mysterious Christopher Chubb. An Australian literary hoaxer, Chubb is...

    • Peter Carey
    • Penguin Random House Australia, 2015
    • 1760141399, 9781760141394
    • My Life as a Fake
  2. Fiendishly devious and addictively readable, Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake is a moral labyrinth constructed around the uneasy relationship between literature and lying. In steamy, fetid...

    • Peter Carey
    • Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009
    • 030753877X, 9780307538772
  3. Jan 1, 2003 · Using as a springboard a real literary hoax that transfixed Australia in his boyhood, Peter Carey wickedly and ruefully explores how a phantom poet taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker, pursuing him from Melbourne to a seedy, sweaty, bitter ending in the tropical chaos of Kuala Lumpur. Genres ...

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    • Hardcover
  4. My Life As A Fake is a fantastical gothic tale, in part inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, about a hoax poet who mysteriously materialises and then pursues, taunts,...

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    In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry journal, meets a mysterious Australian named Christopher Chubb. Chubb is a despised literary hoaxer, carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit.

  6. May 29, 2019 · My Life As A Fake. Peter Carey ventures into the Far East with a novel shot through with mysteries at once historical, literary, and personal. Listed in the Literature category on Art In Fiction, My Life as a Fake (2003) is a literary novel by two-time Booker Prize-winning author Peter Carey.

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  8. www.faber.co.uk › 9780571216208-my-life-as-a-fakeMy Life as a Fake - Faber

    Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake is a remarkable novel about a creature as indelible as Frankenstein, by the two-time Booker-winning author of Amnesia, Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. paperback ebook. £9.99.

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