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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.

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"Peter Carey's new novel, My Life as a Fake, is so confidently brilliant, so economical yet lively in its writing, so tightly fitted and continuously startling in its plot that something, we feel, must be wrong with it."--John Updike, "The New Yorker" "Carey has always been a master of high-energy prose, but he is also skilled at the memorable moment -- the scene or tableau so rich or original that it lingers long after the novel."--"The Globe and Mail""exquisitively crafted...a fantastic tale constructed as a story within a story within a story."--"Toronto Star" "Part detective story, part pitiless dissection of the colonial psyche, part gothic horror tale.... Carey makes magic.... In My Life as a Fake, Carey exposes such profound insecurities, invents so many maddened and tender characters, paints such an indelible picture of the sad expatriate life that, like poor 'Bob McCorkle, ' he seizes our imagination and won't let go.... [H]ugely entertaining."--"The Toronto Star" "[L]ikened to prime period Graham Greene with touches of Malcolm Lowry, Mary Shelley, Joseph Conrad, George Gissing and William Somerset Maugham.... It's hard to think of another major writer working in English w

Who reads My Life As a Fake?

Author

Sir Peter Carey, Peter Carey

Publisher

Faber & Faber; Brand: Faber n Faber

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780571216185

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.37 / 5 (83 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14