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  My Life as a Fake (Paperback) By (author) Peter Carey

  

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  Short Description for My Life as a FakeIn 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.
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  • Publisher: Faber and Faber
  • Published: 03 June 2004
  • Format: Paperback 276 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780571216208 ISBN 10: 057121620X
  • Sales rank: 71,014

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• Paperback editon of Carey's fictional account of a literary hoax. Continues the popularity for the Booker-winning author of "Oscar & Lucinda" and "True History of the Kelly Gang" . "An immensely powerful work that will resonate for generations" Philip Hensher, "The Times"