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My life as a fake

Carey, Peter, 1943-2004
Books, Manuscripts
In Melbourne in the late 1940s, a young conservative poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. But over the ensuing years his audacious act of literary ventriloquism takes on a much darker resonance.
Main title:
My life as a fake / Peter Carey.
Imprint:
London : Faber, 2004.
Collation:
276 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: 2003.
ISBN:
9780571216208 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
BRN:
595486
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