My Life as a Fake
Peter Carey
265 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0375414983
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Language: English
Publish: October 28, 2003
AsiaAustraliaContemporaryFictionHistorical FictionLiterary FictionLiteratureMysteryNovelsPoetry
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.