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Title: My Life as a Fake
Condition: New
EAN: 9780571216208
ISBN: 9780571216208
Edition: Main - Re-issue
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 06/03/2004
Item Height: 197mm
Item Length: 131mm
Item Width: 17mm
Item Weight: 235g
Author: Peter Carey
Language: English
ISBN-10: 057121620X
Description: Melbourne, the late 1940s. A young conservative Australian poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. Choosing as his target the most avant-garde of the literary magazines, he submits for publication the entire oeuvre of one Bob McCorkle, a working-class poet of raw power and sexual frankness, conveniently dead at twenty-four and entirely the product of Chubb's imagination. Not only does the magazine fall for the hoax, but the local authorities also sue its editor for publishing obscenity. At the trial someone uncannily resembling the faked photograph of the invented McCorkle, leaps to his feet. At this moment a horrified Chubb is confronted by the malevolent being he has himself manufactured...
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Fiction
Release Year: 2004

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