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Peter Carey

Peter Carey is the multi-award-winning author of eight novels, plus two highly acclaimed collections of short stories and a memoir. His books have won or been shortlisted for every major literary award in Australia. He has won the Booker Prize twice – in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang and in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda. In 1998 he won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Jack Maggs, and again in 2001 for True History of the Kelly Gang. In 2007 he won the NSW Premier's Award and the Victorian Premier's Award for Theft: A Love Story. Born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Peter Carey now lives in New York.

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Title:: My Life as a Fake (MP3)
Written by:: Peter Carey
Read by:: Emma Gregory
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 1
Duration:: 9 hours 30 minutes
MP3 size:: 412 MB
Published:: August 01 2019
Available Date:: August 01 2019
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9780655615828
Genres:: Fiction; Australian; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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An Australian literary hoax lies at the core of My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey's captivating 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 into a fantastic story of imposture, murder, kidnapping and exile, which couldn't be true unless its teller were mad. Or perhaps haunted. My Life as a Fake is a Frankenstein story in which what is imagined comes to life and exacts its due.

'A charismatically furious piece of work, brilliantly meshing its ethical and artistic debate with a rich human drama.'
The Times

'Fast, furious and fantastical ... Carey is Australia's finest living novelist.'
The Guardian

'Reads like the impossible offspring of a fictional ménage-á-trois involving Pale Fire, Lord Jim, and Our Man in Havana.'
The Atlantic Monthly