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My Life as a Fake is a 2003 novel by Australian writer Peter Carey based on the Ern Malley hoax of 1943, in which two poets created a fictitious poet, Ern Malley, and submitted poems in his name to the literary magazine Angry Penguins.
- Peter Carey
- 2003
Jan 1, 2003 · Peter Carey. 3.39. 3,534 ratings366 reviews. Using as a springboard a real literary hoax that transfixed Australia in his boyhood, Peter Carey wickedly and ruefully explores how a phantom poet taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker, pursuing him from Melbourne to a seedy, sweaty, bitter ending in the tropical chaos of Kuala Lumpur.
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A novel by Peter Carey based on the true story of a literary hoax in 1943 Australia. It explores the themes of colonialism, identity, and art through the voices of the hoaxers, the editor, and the invented poet Bob McCorkle.
Fiendishly devious and addictively readable, 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.
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...
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Oct 18, 2021 · Do you live your own life? Or do you try to imitate the others? And if you’re trying to imitate a fictional personage will you become one? Will you end up as an ultimate hoax? Peter Carey is once again full of originality. And ‘hoax’ is a keyword of My Life as a Fake… He is right, he said quietly. The hoax misfired.
Oct 28, 2003 · Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake is a literate mystery of forgeries and doppelgangers with a fictional manuscript at its heart. The mystery--the origin of a brilliant but purportedly faked poem--fuels a whirlwind pursuit through Australia and across the wilds of Malaysia.
