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Falso d'autore

Sarah Wode-Douglas is an aristocratic woman who has made her living as the editor of the poetry magazine "First Proof", until she impulsively follows a friend to Kuala Lumpur. She meets Christopher Chubb, an enigmatic wreck of a man whose terrible secrets Sarah is compelled to discover and pursue.

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  • "My life as a fake"
  • "My life as a fake"@it
  • "My life as a fake"@pl
  • "Hidupku sebagai seorang gadungan"

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  • "Sarah Wode-Douglas is an aristocratic woman who has made her living as the editor of the poetry magazine "First Proof", until she impulsively follows a friend to Kuala Lumpur. She meets Christopher Chubb, an enigmatic wreck of a man whose terrible secrets Sarah is compelled to discover and pursue."@en
  • "Sarah Wode-Douglas is an aristocratic woman who has made her living as the editor of the poetry magazine "First Proof", until she impulsively follows a friend to Kuala Lumpur. She meets Christopher Chubb, an enigmatic wreck of a man whose terrible secrets Sarah is compelled to discover and pursue."
  • ""Fiendishly devious and addictively readable, Peter Carey's 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. 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 exile -- a story that couldn't be true unless its teller were mad. My Life as a Fake is Carey at his most audacious and entertaining."--Book cover."
  • "In Melbourne in the 1940's, an arrogant young Australian poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. Choosing as his target the trendiest of the literary magazines, he submits for publication the entire works of one Bob McCorkle, a working class poet of raw power and sexual frankness, conveniently dead at tweny-four and entirely the product of Chubb's imagination. Not only does the magazine fall for the hoax, but the local authorities also sue its editor for publishing obscenity."
  • "Accompanying the arrogant poet, John Slater, to Malaysia, London editor Sarah Wode-Douglass finds herself obsessively drawn to a mysterious manuscript that bears a legacy of fraud and danger."
  • "Accompanying the arrogant poet, John Slater, to Malaysia, London editor Sarah Wode-Douglass finds herself obsessively drawn to a mysterious manuscript that bears a legacy of fraud and danger."@en
  • ""In Melbourne in the late 1940s, a young conservative poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. But over the ensuing years his audacious act of literary ventriloquism takes on a much darker resonance. Having fled Melbourne for the seedy, sweaty streets of Kuala Lumpur, Chubb finds himself, just as Frankestein was, haunted and pursued by his own creation."
  • "While traveling through Kuala Lumpur, Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry magazine meets Christopher Chubb, a destitute Australian writer driven to the brink of madness by his imagination. Chubb claims to have created the legend of Bob McCorkle, a writer whose controversial poems led to an editor's demise. Chubb insists that McCorkle isn't real, yet he tells an astonishing tale of his struggles with this monstrous nemesis who allegedly kidnapped his daughter. Thus begins a lifelong obsession for Sarah to find a mysterious manuscript and the truth."
  • "Chistopher Chubb, an arrogant poet in 1950's Australia, creates a fictitious poet. Only the phantom poet comes to life to taunt, haunt and otherwise destroy his maker, pursuing Chubb from Melbourne to a seedy, sweaty, bitter ending in the tropical chaos of Kuala Lumpur. The Creature steals Chubb's life, eclipsing him as a poet and a man."@en
  • "Sarah Wode-Douglass, editor of a London poetry magazine, had grown up knowing the famous and infamous John Slater. And because he figured prominently in the disaster that was her parents' marriage, when Slater proposes that she accompany him to Malaysia, Sarah embarks on a journey that becomes, instead, a lifelong obsession. Her discoveries spiral outward from Christopher Chubb, a destitute Australian she meets by chance in the Kuala Lumpur. He is mad, Slater warns her, explaining the ruinous hoax Chubb had committed decades earlier. But lurking behind the man's peculiarity, Sarah senses, is artistic genius, in the form of a manuscript he teases her with and which she would do anything to acquire. The provenance of this work, she learns, is marked by kidnapping, exile, and death - and that more than once compels her back to Malaysia without ever disclosing all of its secrets, only the power of the imagination and the prices it can exact from those who would wield it."@en
  • "Set in 1950s Melbourne, and centring on an arrogant young Australian poet named Christopher Chubb, and his literary creation, poet Bob McCorkle, this novel includes literary hoaxes, punctured pretensions and obscenity charges. A tale reminiscent, in parts, of the Angry Penguins literary hoax, in which a fictitious dead poet, Ern Malley, was praised for his work by the arbiters of literary taste -- the work consisting of randomly-chosen phrases."
  • "Peter Carey uses the Ern Malley hoax as his central theme in this new novel."@en
  • "Peter Carey uses the Ern Malley hoax as his central theme in this new novel."

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  • "Powieść australijska"@pl
  • "Australiana"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Verhalend proza"
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Australian fiction"

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  • "Mein Leben als Fälschung : roman"
  • "My life as a fake = Hidupku sebagai seorang gadungan : sebuah novel"
  • "Falso d'autore"
  • "Falso d'autore"@it
  • "Falso d'autore"@en
  • "My life as a fake"@en
  • "My life as a fake"
  • "MY LIFE AS A FAKE"@en
  • "Mein Leben als Fälschung"
  • "Moi︠a︡ zhiznʹ kak falʹshivka"
  • "Moj krivotvoreni život"
  • "Moj život kao lažnjak"
  • "My life as a fake : a novel"
  • "My life as a fake : a novel"@en
  • "Bir sahtekar olarak hayatım = My life as a fake"
  • "Mein Leben als Fälschung : Roman"
  • "Mit liv som falsum : roman"
  • "Mit liv som falsum : roman"@da
  • "Minha vida, uma farsa"
  • "Historia pewnej mistyfikacji"
  • "Historia pewnej mistyfikacji"@pl
  • "My Life As a Fake"
  • "Mi vida de farsante"@es
  • "Mi vida de farsante"
  • "My life as a fake a novel"@en
  • "My life as a fake a novel"
  • "Моя жизнь как фальшивка"
  • "My Life as a Fake"
  • "My Life as a Fake"@en
  • "Ho plastographos : mythistorēma"

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