My Life as a Fake

Informationen zum Autor Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria and now lives in New York. He is the author of twelve previous novels, three short story collections and two books on travel. Among other prizes, he has won the Booker Prize twice, the Commonwealth Writers Prize twice and the Miles Franklin Literary Award three times. Klappentext Choosing as his target the most avant-garde of the literary magazines, he submits for publication the entire oeuvre of one Bob McCorkle, a working-class poet of raw power and sexual frankness, conveniently dead at twenty-four and entirely the product of Chubb's imagination. Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake is a remarkable novel about a creature as indelible as Frankenstein, by the two-time Booker-winning author of Amnesia , Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang . Zusammenfassung Choosing as his target the most avant-garde of the literary magazines, he submits for publication the entire oeuvre of one Bob McCorkle, a working-class poet of raw power and sexual frankness, conveniently dead at twenty-four and entirely the product of Chubb's imagination.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Peter Carey
• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 03.06.2004
• EAN: 9780571216208
• ISBN: 978-0-571-21620-8
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 128 mm x 196 mm x 20 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; FICTION / Thrillers / General, Australia, FICTION / Psychological, Thriller / suspense, Psychological thriller, Hoaxes & deceptions