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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 ...
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- 2003
- 2003
For in My Life as a Fake, the make-believe poet, named Bob McCorkle, invented by struggling poet Christopher Chubb, becomes a hulking physical presence who comes to haunt his creator,...
1 gen 2003 · Peter Carey. 3.39. 3,516 ratings364 reviews. 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.
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Fiendishly devious and addictively readable, My Life as a Fake is 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.
13 set 2003 · My Life as a Fake. by Peter Carey. 256pp, Faber, £16.99. In June 1944, while war was raging in Europe, Australia discovered a literary genius. Ern Malley, a lonely garage mechanic, wrote...
18 ott 2021 · My life as a fake. by. Carey, Peter, 1943- Publication date. 2003. Topics. Literary forgeries and mystifications -- Fiction, Women editors -- Fiction, Poets -- Poets, Australia -- Fiction, Malaysia -- Fiction. Publisher. Milson's Point, NSW ; New York : Random House Australia. Collection. printdisabled; internetarchivebooks. Contributor.
17 lug 2020 · Internet Archive. Language. English. 270 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm. "In Melbourne in the late 1940s, a young conservative Australian poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity.
