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My Life as a Fake

By: Peter Carey
Narrated by: Emma Gregory
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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.

©2003 Peter Carey (P)2019 Bolinda Publishing Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Thriller & Suspense Fiction Suspense
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