My Life as a Fake - Paperback
by Peter Carey
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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter CareySeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:01/04/05Pages:265
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400030880ISBN-10:1400030889UPC:9781400030880Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:8.08 x 5.24 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC3CAAP63J
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 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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400030880ISBN-10:1400030889UPC:9781400030880Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LiterarySize:8.08 x 5.24 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC3CAAP63J
Peter Carey received the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda, and again for True History of the Kelly Gang. His other honors include the Commonwealth Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. The author of seven previous novels and a collection of stories, he was born in Australia in 1943 and now lives in New York City.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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