num_pages: 265
description: Using as a springboard a real literary hoax that transfixed Australia in his boyhood, Peter Carey wickedly and ruefully explores how a phantom poet taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his maker, pursuing him from Melbourne to a seedy, sweaty, bitter ending in the tropical chaos of Kuala Lumpur.
language: English
title: My Life as a Fake
titlecomplete: My Life as a Fake
genres: Australia, Mystery, Asia, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Fiction
ratings_count: 3452
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Kiriyama Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf