My Life as a Fake
by Carey, Peter
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0571216188
- ISBN 13
- 9780571216185
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Random House, London, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. This is the first UK edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 270 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. In Melbourne in the late 1940s, a young conservative poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. But over the ensuing years his audacious act of literary ventriloquism takes on a much darker resonance. Having fled Melbourne for the seedy, sweaty streets of Kuala Lumpur, Chubb finds himself, just as Frankenstein was, haunted and pursued by his own creation. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Australia; ISBN: 0571216188. ISBN/EAN: 9780571216185. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3001. . 9780571216185
Synopsis
Peter Carey received the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda , and again for True History of the Kelly Gang . His other honors include the Commonwealth Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. The author of seven previous novels and a collection of stories, he was born in Australia in 1943 and now lives in New York City. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3001
- Title
- My Life as a Fake
- Author
- Carey, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0571216188
- ISBN 13
- 9780571216185
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Fiction; Australia; ISBN: 0571216188 EAN: 9780571216185 Carey, Peter My Life as a Fake
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