My Life as a Fake
by Carey, Peter
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket,
- ISBN 10
- 0571216188
- ISBN 13
- 9780571216185
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 2003. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket,. London: Faber & Faber:, 2003. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket, 266 pp.<br/> Sarah Wode-Douglas is the editor of a London poetry magazine. She's known the infamous John Slater most of her life. He figured into her parents' disastrous marriage. When he asks her to go with him to Malaysia, she goes, mostly out of curiosity. She meets a peculiar man who claims to have access to a very valuable manuscript. Slater warns her to avoid the man, but her interest is piqued. She'll do anything to acquire the manuscript. While Slater is in search of cheap thrills Sarah is determined to acquire this mysterious manuscript and to learn more about the strange man that claims to have it. Carey is the Booker Prize-winning author of THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG.
Synopsis
Peter Carey received the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda , and again for True History of the Kelly Gang . His other honors include the Commonwealth Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. The author of seven previous novels and a collection of stories, he was born in Australia in 1943 and now lives in New York City. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Ziesings (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62194
- Title
- My Life as a Fake
- Author
- Carey, Peter
- Book Condition
- Used - First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket,
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0571216188
- ISBN 13
- 9780571216185
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
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