My life as a fake : a novel
Carey, Peter (, 1943-)
My life as a fake : a novel / Peter Carey - New York : Vintage International , c2003. - 266 p. ; 25 cm.
"Sarah Wode-Douglass, the 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 out of curiosity 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 steamy, fetid city of Kuala Lumpur. He is mad, Slater warns her, explaining the ruinous hoax Chubb had committed decades earlier. But lurking behind the man's peculiarity and arrogance, Sarah senses, is artistic genius, in the form of a manuscript he teases her with and which she soon would do anything to acquire. The provenance of this work, she gradually learns, is marked by kidnapping, exile, and death - a relentless saga that reaches from Melbourne to Bali, Sumatra, and Java, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
9781400030880
2003052746
Literary forgeries and mystifications---Fiction
British---Fiction---Australia
British---Malaysia----Fiction
Women editors----Fiction
Poets----Fiction
Australia----Fiction
Malaysia---Fiction.
Psychological fiction
FIC CAR
My life as a fake : a novel / Peter Carey - New York : Vintage International , c2003. - 266 p. ; 25 cm.
"Sarah Wode-Douglass, the 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 out of curiosity 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 steamy, fetid city of Kuala Lumpur. He is mad, Slater warns her, explaining the ruinous hoax Chubb had committed decades earlier. But lurking behind the man's peculiarity and arrogance, Sarah senses, is artistic genius, in the form of a manuscript he teases her with and which she soon would do anything to acquire. The provenance of this work, she gradually learns, is marked by kidnapping, exile, and death - a relentless saga that reaches from Melbourne to Bali, Sumatra, and Java, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
9781400030880
2003052746
Literary forgeries and mystifications---Fiction
British---Fiction---Australia
British---Malaysia----Fiction
Women editors----Fiction
Poets----Fiction
Australia----Fiction
Malaysia---Fiction.
Psychological fiction
FIC CAR
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