- Title:
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My Life as a Fake
- Written by:
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Peter Carey
- Read by:
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Emma Gregory
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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8
- Duration:
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9 hours 29 minutes
- Published:
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August 01 2019
- Available Date:
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August 01 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9780655615811
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
- Publisher:
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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