My Life as a Fake

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 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry journal, meets a mysterious Australian named Christopher Chubb. Chubb is a despised literary hoaxer, carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit. But in this dubious manuscript Sarah recognizes a work of real genius. But whose genius? As Sarah tries to secure the manuscript, Chubb draws her into a fantastic story of imposture, murder, kidnapping, and exile-a story that couldn’t be true unless its teller were mad. My Life as a Fake is Carey at his most audacious and entertaining.

Author: Peter Carey
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 01/04/2005
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 265
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.24w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781400030880
Language: English