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My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey

ISBN: 9781400030880
Release Date: 04 Jan 2005
Average rating: (read by 11 members)

Categories: Modern fiction

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

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	gsdgsd
	Rated it 6 months ago

It's not a happy novel, but an extremely good one. It's rare something so intricate goes so quickly; it reminds me a bit of "Never Let Me Go," just because I was left with a similar reaction.

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	Rated it 3 months ago

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