My life as a Fake Peter Carey

My life as a Fake Peter Carey

In Melbourne in the late 1940s, a young conservative poet named Christopher Chubb decided 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. Having fled Melbourne for the seedy, sweaty streets of Kuala Lumpur, Chubb finds himself, just as Frankenstein was, haunted and pursued by his own creation.

Using as a springboard a real literary hoax that transfixed Australia in his boyhood, the Ern Malley hoax of 1943, Peter Carey wickedly and ruefully explores how a phantom poet taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker, pursuing him from Melbourne to a seedy, sweaty, bitter ending in the tropical chaos of Kuala Lumpur.

Published:  Faber and Faber Limited.   Edition: 2003.  ISBN 0-571-21619-6.

Genre: Psychological Fiction, Mystery/Literary.

Details: Soft cover, paperback.  Consists of 269 pages.  Size 15,2cm x 23,2cm. Thick 2cm. Weight 400 grams.

Condition: Book in good condition, inside pages clean with no inscriptions. 

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