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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
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
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
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,...
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.
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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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.