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Published by Random House Australia 2016-06-09, Milson's Point, N.S.W. :|Enfield, 2016
ISBN 10: 1742755291ISBN 13: 9781742755298
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
Book
paperback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
Published by Milson's Point, N.S.W. Random House Australia 2000, 2000
ISBN 10: 0091836468ISBN 13: 9780091836467
Seller: Dial-A-Book, NARRABEEN, NSW, Australia
Book
8vo softcover427pp index, b/w illus. very good. First published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.nIncludes bibliographical references: 389-415.
Published by Random House Australia (Pty) Ltd, Milson Point, N.S.W., 2004
ISBN 10: 0712680004ISBN 13: 9780712680004
Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Book
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The dust jacket has light shelf wear. The edges of the book are somewhat yellowed with light spotting. 776 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm).
Published by Random House Australia, Milson's Point, N.S.W., 1992
ISBN 10: 0091825571ISBN 13: 9780091825577
Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1981 Paperback Printing. 327 pages. The dust jacket has a little wear. The page edges are moderately tanned and foxed, as are the page margins. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm).
Published by Random House Australia, Milson Point, N.S.W., 2003
ISBN 10: 1740512871ISBN 13: 9781740512879
Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Book
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The cover has a little wear. The page edges are somewhat tanned. The first page appears to be signed by the author. 327 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm). Signed by the Author(?).
Published by Milson's Point, N.S.W. Random House Australia 2003, 2003
Seller: Dial-A-Book, NARRABEEN, NSW, Australia
8vo hardcover 280pp. comes with limited edition dvd 778/1000, the dvd has an interview with Peter Carey on it. fine / near fine d/w, rough cut page edges, ribbon place marker. Po name stamp on fep. In his remarkable new novel, two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey creates a Creature as indelible as Frankenstein's. My Life as a Fake is a fantastical gothic tale, in part inspired by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, about a hoax poet who mysteriously materialises and then pursues, taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker. Peter Carey uses the Ern Malley hoax as a springboard, but the leap he takes is into the realms of richly imagined fiction. Sara, an English poetry editor on holiday in Kuala Lumpur, stumbles upon an Australian, Christopher Chubb, reading Rilke in a bicycle shop. The man shows her a scrap of poetry the like of which she's never seen. She becomes determined to get her hands on the poetry, to publish in (and revive) her ailing poetry journal. Chubb insists that Sara hear his story first. His tale is told over many sittings, and is the central story of My Life as a Fake. As a conservative young poet in Melbourne in the 1950s, Chubb decided to teach the country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. Choosing as his target the most avant-garde of the literary magazines, he submitted 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 did the magazine fall for the hoax, but its editor was prosecuted for publishing obscenity. At the trial someone uncannily resembling the man in the faked photograph of the invented McCorkle leapt to his feet. At that moment the horrified Chubb was confronted by the malevolent being he had himself manufactured. Peter Carey wickedly and ruefully explores how the phantom poet taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker, pursuing Chubb from Melbourne to the seedy, sweaty, tropical chaos of Kuala Lumpur.