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 , Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry journal, meets a mysterious Australian named Christopher www.doorway.ru by: · My Life as a Fake. by Peter Carey. pp, Faber, £ In June , while war was raging in Europe, Australia discovered a literary genius. Ern Malley, a Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Listed in the Literature category on Art In Fiction, My Life as a Fake () is a literary novel by two-time Booker Prize-winning author Peter Carey. Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry magazine, had grown up familiar with the famous—and infamous— John Slater.
CAREY, Peter - My Life as a Fake - (Excellent Paperback) in the Crime Fiction category for sale in Pretoria / Tshwane (ID). "Peter Carey's new novel, My Life as a Fake, is so confidently brilliant, so economical yet lively in its writing, so tightly fitted and continuously startling in its plot that something, we feel, must be wrong with it."--John Updike, "The New Yorker" "Carey has always been a master of high-energy prose, but he is also skilled at the memorable. My Life as a Fake. Peter Carey. Faber Faber, Dec 9, - Fiction - pages. 0 Reviews.
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 , Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry journal, meets a mysterious Australian named Christopher Chubb. My Life as a Fake is one of those books that seeks to conjure up a mystery but gets caught in the muddle of its own shadowings and twists and turns." - Peter Craven, Sydney Morning Herald "It's a wonderful extravaganza, something in the manner of Robert Louis Stevenson, where startling revelations and bold excursions keep exploding across the deadly serious landscape of debate and ideas. My Life as a Fake. 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.
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