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My life as a fake / a novel by Peter Carey.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.3.C36 M9 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carey, Peter, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literary forgeries and mystifications--Fiction.
- Literary forgeries and mystifications.
- British--Australia--Fiction.
- British.
- Australia.
- Malaysia.
- British--Malaysia--Fiction.
- Women editors--Fiction.
- Women editors.
- Australia--Fiction.
- Malaysia--Fiction.
- Poets--Fiction.
- Poets.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 265 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published : Sydney, Australia : Random House, 2003.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0375414983
- OCLC:
- 52269907
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