My Life as a Fake
  • Published:
    Nov-2003 (Hardcover)
    Jan-2005 (Paperback)
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Time Period:
    Contemporary
  • Pages:
    288
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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 exileâ€"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.
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    •  
    • Jan-2005
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1400030889
    • ISBN13: 9781400030880
    •  
    • Jun-2004
    • Faber and Faber (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 057121620X
    • ISBN13: 9780571216208
    •  
    • Oct-2005
    • Faber and Faber (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0641685661
    • ISBN13: 9780641685668
    • First Edition
    • Nov-2003
    • Knopf
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0375414983
    • ISBN13: 9780375414985
    •  
    • 2003
    • Recorded Books, LLC
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1402565348
    • ISBN13: 9781402565342
    •  
    • May-2009
    • Knopf
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 030753877X
    • ISBN13: 9780307538772
    •  
    • May-2009
    • Faber and Faber (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0571267084
    • ISBN13: 9780571267088
    •  
    • May-2009
    • Penguin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1760141399
    • ISBN13: 9781760141394
    •  
    • May-2009
    • Vintage Canada
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0307368661
    • ISBN13: 9780307368669
    •  
    • Oct-2003
    • Penguin Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 0141805196
    • ISBN13: 9780141805191
    •  
    • Nov-2003
    • Recorded Books
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1402556004
    • ISBN13: 9781402556005



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