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001			026833
005			20231009193338.0
008			080401s2003 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2003052746
020			_a9781400030880
082	0	0	_aFIC CAR
100	1		_aCarey, Peter _d(, 1943-)
245	1	0	_aMy life as a fake _b: a novel _c/ Peter Carey
260			_aNew York _b: Vintage International _c, c2003.
300			_a266 p. _c; 25 cm.
520	3		_a"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.
650		0	_aLiterary forgeries and mystifications _x-Fiction
650			_aBritish _z-Australia _x-Fiction
650			_aBritish _z-Malaysia _v--Fiction
650			_aWomen editors _v--Fiction
650			_aPoets _v--Fiction
651		4	_aAustralia _v--Fiction
651		0	_aMalaysia _x-Fiction.
655		7	_aPsychological fiction
942			_cMO
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