My Life As a Fake

by Carey, Peter

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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Milsons Point, Knopf/Random House first edition - hard cover in dust jacket Using as a springboard the Ern Malley hoax, Peter Carey wickedly and ruefully explores how the phantom poet taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker, pursuing Chubb from Melbourne to the seedy, sweaty, tropical chaos of Kula Lumpur. We also INCLUDE a hard cover copy of ""The Ern… Read more about this item
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Milsons Point, Knopf/Random FIRST AUSTRALIAN EDITION - h/c in d.j. Using as a springboard the Ern Malley hoax, Peter Carey wickedly and ruefully explores how the phantom poet taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker - the young poet Christopher Chubb. This book is often overlooked as not one of Carey's best; but beneath the ""true"" story, is a real… Read more about this item
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