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My Life As a Fake
Peter Carey
My Life As a Fake
Peter Carey
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 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. But in this dubious manuscript Sarah recognizes a work of real genius. But whose genius? As Sarah tries to secure the manuscript, Chubb draws her into a fantastic story of imposture, murder, kidnapping, and exile?a story that couldn?t be true unless its teller were mad. My Life as a Fake is Carey at his most audacious and entertaining.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | January 4, 2005 |
ISBN13 | 9781400030880 |
Publishers | Vintage |
Pages | 288 |
Dimensions | 133 × 19 × 178 mm · 294 g |
Language | English |
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