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My Life As A Fake by Sir Peter Carey, Peter Carey is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is My Life As A Fake about?

In Melbourne In 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. Using As A Springboard A Real Literary Hoax That Transfixed Australia In His Boyhood, Peter Carey Explores How The Phantom Poet Taunts, Haunts And Otherwise Destroys His Maker, Pursuing Chubb From Melbourne To A Seedy, Sweaty, Bitter Ending In The Tropical Chaos Of Kuala Lumpur.--book Jacket. Peter Carey.

Who reads My Life As A Fake?

Author

Sir Peter Carey, Peter Carey

Publisher

FF FABER AND FABER

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780571216192

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.37 / 5 (83 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14