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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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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)
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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
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| 9780571216208 | Paperback | $12.86 | $10.61 | The Book Depository |
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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)