ISBN: 0141805196
Author: Peter Carey
Language: English
Publisher: Gardners Books (August 31, 2003)
Category: Genre Fiction
Subcategory: Literature
Rating: 4.7
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Acclaim for Peter Carey’s MY LIFE AS A FAKE Peter Carey’s new novel comes like a monsoon after drought.
Acclaim for Peter Carey’s MY LIFE AS A FAKE. Circling from the real to the imaginary and back is as happily perplexing as a drawing by M. C. Esche. .Carey can bring a character to life, give him a voice and a history and a psychological topography in a single paragraph. Peter Carey’s new novel comes like a monsoon after drought. It is a magnificent, poetic contemplation of the lying, fakery and insincerity inherent in the act of artistic creatio.It’s a charismatically furious piece of work, brilliantly meshing its ethical and artistic debate with a rich human drama.
My Life as a Fake is a 2003 novel by Australian writer Peter Carey based on the Ern Malley hoax of 1943, in which two poets created a fictitious poet, Ern Malley.
My Life as a Fake is a 2003 novel by Australian writer Peter Carey based on the Ern Malley hoax of 1943, in which two poets created a fictitious poet, Ern Malley, and submitted poems in his name to the literary magazine Angry Penguins. The novel was inspired by the idea of "a 24-year-old hoax brought to life – original, angry, multilingual, learned
My Life as a Fake book.
My Life as a Fake book. Using as a springboard a real literary hoax that transfixed Australia in his boyhood, 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.
Peter Carey received the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda and again for True History of the Kelly Gang. His novel, Parrot and Olivier in America, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2010. His other honours include the Commonwealth Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. Born in Australia, he has lived in New York for twenty years.
ar, as he had responded to Noussette’s touch in the hammock while the lightning sheeted across Sydney Harbour.
Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake is a literate mystery of forgeries and doppelgangers with a fictional manuscript at its heart. The mystery-the origin of a brilliant but purportedly faked poem-fuels a whirlwind pursuit through Australia and across the wilds of Malaysia
Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake is a literate mystery of forgeries and doppelgangers with a fictional manuscript at its heart. The mystery-the origin of a brilliant but purportedly faked poem-fuels a whirlwind pursuit through Australia and across the wilds of Malaysia. Grappling with her own childhood demons, Carey's bibliophile sleuth, Sarah Wode-Douglass, sometimes becomes lost in the exotic and bloody chase.
бесплатно, без регистрации и без смс. Following the triumph of his Booker Prizewinning True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey ventures into the Far East with a novel shot through with mysteries at once historical, literary, and personal
бесплатно, без регистрации и без смс. Following the triumph of his Booker Prizewinning True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey ventures into the Far East with a novel shot through with mysteries at once historical, literary, and personal. And because he figured prominently in the disaster that was her parents marriage, when Slater proposes that she accompany him to Malaysia, Sarah embarks out of curiosity on a journey that becomes, instead, a lifelong obsession.
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My Life as a Fake is Carey at his most audacious and entertaining Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, In. New York.
My Life as a Fake is Carey at his most audacious and entertaining. When Peter Carey offered to take his son to Japan, twelve-year-old Charley stipulated no temples or museums. He wanted to see manga, anime, and cool, weird stuff. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, In. Originally published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Lt. London, in 1991. First published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, In. New York, in 1991.
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