My Life As A Fake

My Life As A FakeFiendishly devious and addictively readable, Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake is a moral labyrinth constructed around the uneasy relationship between literature and lying. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode Douglass, the editor of a London poetry journal, meets a mysterious Australian named Christopher Chubb. Chubb is a despised literary hoaxer, carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit. But in this dubious manuscript Sarah

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and answers readers most pressing questionsoddly

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From the food to the fun to the flavors

Told in journal entries and therapy-session transcripts

Each stunning illustration is accompanied by a brief paragraph about the underwater creature and its habitat

painstakingly spelling it out letter by letter

when a fly ball gets lost in the sun

Given the volatile state of the world

A father-and-son journey along the Lewis and Clark Trail--from Fort Mandan to the shining sea--offers readers a genre-bending blend of American history

Rockefeller III convened a committee to respond to post-World War II interest in developing improved understanding of

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