My Life as a Fake European History no matter the outcome

no matter the outcome

bizarre view of society

performing legendary shows: Jimi Hendrix

and what started out as a joke has suddenly turned serious

After a hellish battle against ravenous sea monsters

My Life as a Fake European History no matter the outcomeAn Australian literary hoax lies at the core of My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey's captivating, 'continuously startling' (John Updike) contemplation of the art world. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode Douglass, editor of a London poetry journal, meets the mysterious Christopher Chubb. An Australian literary hoaxer, Chubb is carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit. In this dubious work Sarah recognises a real genius. But