My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey

Book Description

Secondhand. Near fine condition. First edition First printing.

In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, editor of a London poetry journal, meets the mysterious Christopher Chubb. An Australian literary hoaxer, Chubb, is carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit.

In this dubious work, Sarah recognises a real genius. But whose genius? She is drawn into a fantastic story of imposture, murder, kidnapping, and exile, which couldn't be true unless its teller were mad. Or perhaps haunted. My Life as a Fake is a Frankenstein story in which imagined beings come to life and exact their due.