My Life As A Fake (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
A darkly comic literary thriller, My Life as a Fake chronicles the obsessive journey of Sarah Wode-Douglass, a buttoned-up British poetry editor who travels to Kuala Lumpur and becomes entangled in a stranger's extraordinary tale of deception and identity. Peter Carey draws on the infamous Ern Malley hoax — in which two Australian poets fabricated a modernist genius to mock the literary establishment — and spins it into a gothic, labyrinthine narrative about the dangerous power of creation. At the heart of the story is Christopher Chubb, a man who claims his invented poet, Bob McCorkle, somehow came to life and destroyed everything he held dear, a premise Carey presents with mounting dread and psychological intensity. The novel argues that art, once unleashed, can exceed and even punish its creator, blurring the line between imagination and reality in ways that are both thrilling and deeply unsettling. Written with Carey's signature wit and baroque storytelling, it stands as a meditation on authorship, fraud, and the terrifying autonomy of fictional worlds.
Author: Peter Carey
Format: Hardback
Published: 2003, New York, Knopf
Edition: 1st us ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
A darkly comic literary thriller, My Life as a Fake chronicles the obsessive journey of Sarah Wode-Douglass, a buttoned-up British poetry editor who travels to Kuala Lumpur and becomes entangled in a stranger's extraordinary tale of deception and identity. Peter Carey draws on the infamous Ern Malley hoax — in which two Australian poets fabricated a modernist genius to mock the literary establishment — and spins it into a gothic, labyrinthine narrative about the dangerous power of creation. At the heart of the story is Christopher Chubb, a man who claims his invented poet, Bob McCorkle, somehow came to life and destroyed everything he held dear, a premise Carey presents with mounting dread and psychological intensity. The novel argues that art, once unleashed, can exceed and even punish its creator, blurring the line between imagination and reality in ways that are both thrilling and deeply unsettling. Written with Carey's signature wit and baroque storytelling, it stands as a meditation on authorship, fraud, and the terrifying autonomy of fictional worlds.