My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey - ISBN: 9781760896553
Paperback
Literary hoax unleashes monstrous truth in steamy Malaysian art world.

My Life as a Fake

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    3 March 2020

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Summary

An Australian literary hoax lies at the core of My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey’s captivating, ‘continuously startling’ (John Updike) contemplation of the art world.

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 carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit. In this dubious work Sarah recognises a real genius. But whose genius? She is drawn i…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781760896553
ISBN-10:1760896551
Author:Peter Carey
Publisher:Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:Penguin Random House Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:3 March 2020
Weight:298g
Dimensions:196mm x 131mm x 25mm
About The Author

Peter Carey

Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, and now lives in New York. He is the author of fourteen novels (including one for children), two volumes of short stories, and two books on travel. Amongst other prizes, Carey has won the Booker Prize twice (for Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang), the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize twice (for Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang), and the Miles Franklin Literary Award three times (for Bliss, Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs). He is an officer of the Order of Australia and a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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