My Life as a Fake A Novel

Fiendishly devious and addictively readable, Peter Carey'sMy Life as a Fakeis a moral labyrinth constructed around the uneasy relationship between literature and lying. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry journal, meets a mysterious Australian named Christopher Chubb. Chubb is a despised literary hoaxer, carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit. But in this dubious manuscript Sarah recognizes a work of real genius. But whose genius? As Sarah tries to secure the manuscript, Chubb draws her into a fantastic story of imposture, murder, kidnapping, and exilea story that couldn't be true unless its teller were mad.My Life as a Fakeis Carey at his most audacious and entertaining.

Peter Carey received the Booker Prize for <b>Oscar and Lucinda</b>, and again for <b>True History of the Kelly Gang</b>. His other honors include the Commonwealth Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. The author of seven previous novels and a collection of stories, he was born in Australia in 1943 and now lives in New York City.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>