My Life as a Fake

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• There was once a poet from Down Under...

  My Life as a Fake by Peter Carey Faber £16.99, pp256 In 1944, an avant-garde Australian poetry magazine called Angry Penguins published The Darkening Ecliptic by Ern Malley, a humble garage mechanic who died from Graves' disease in his early twenties ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Damaged beast of the antipodes

  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 poems of haunting complexity in the tradition of Eliot, Dylan Thom ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  An excellent book. The reader of the audiobook was very good and engaged me more quickly than when I had started reading the book. At the start it seemed a bit stilted and without a lot of promise, but soon picked up. It is the story a female English poetry editor, Sarah, on holiday in Malaysia w ... (continue)

  An excellent book. The reader of the audiobook was very good and engaged me more quickly than when I had started reading the book. At the start it seemed a bit stilted and without a lot of promise, but soon picked up. It is the story a female English poetry editor, Sarah, on holiday in Malaysia who encounters a 2nd rate poet, Chubb, who, many years back, created a poet as a hoax against the editor of another literary magazine. The poet who is the hoax somehow becomes real and torments his "creator." It is the story Chubb tells of their intertwined lives within the story of Sarah tolerating Chubb's telling of the story, in hopes of obtaining the elusive masterful poetry of the hoaxed poet. Very well done.

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• English Books
• Paperback 276 Pages
• ISBN-10: 057121620X
• ISBN-13: 9780571216208
• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Pub date: Jun 03, 2004
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani

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