#18
Title: My Life as a Fake
Author: Peter Carey
Genre: Fiction
Challenges: 100+, Audiobook, Read and Review, Seconds, Support Your Local Library, Pages Read
Rating: C
CTs/No. of Hours: 7/9.75
Published: 2003
Dates read: 2/19/09 - 3/9/09
Read by: Susan Lyons
From the back cover - “Two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey, author of True History of the Kelly Gang, shows again why he is one of the most acclaimed writers in the word with this ambitious novel. My Life as a Fake is Carey’s brilliantly fictionalized spin on the greatest literary hoax in Australia’s colorful history.
“In the 1952s poet Christopher Chubb teaches Australia a lesson about pretension when he composes a body of sexually charge poems, then dupes a trendy literary magazine into believing the poems were written by the late Bob McCorkle, an undiscovered genius. But the trick backfires, and soon Chubb finds himself tormented by the very monster he creates. Decades later a literary editor named Sarah Wode-Douglass beings peeling back the layers of the Chubb mystery in, of all places, Malaysia -- where the reclusive poet remains in hiding.
“With its breathtaking scope and limitless inventiveness, My Life as a Fake is a triumph of the imagination. Carey’s masterful tale receives a sparkling narration by Susan Lyons, who provides authentic and compelling voices for the full cast of vivid characters.”
While I totally loved The True Story of the Kelly Gang a few months ago, I wasn’t a fan of this novel. Carey, I find, loves to take a real character and spin his take on what could have, would have, should have happened. Some parts of it were intriguing -- a bit about the background of the editor Sarah Wode-Douglass and her “boyfriend”, the kidnapping of Chubb’s daughter, and his ultimate demise.
Title: My Life as a Fake
Author: Peter Carey
Genre: Fiction
Challenges: 100+, Audiobook, Read and Review, Seconds, Support Your Local Library, Pages Read
Rating: C
CTs/No. of Hours: 7/9.75
Published: 2003
Dates read: 2/19/09 - 3/9/09
Read by: Susan Lyons
From the back cover - “Two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey, author of True History of the Kelly Gang, shows again why he is one of the most acclaimed writers in the word with this ambitious novel. My Life as a Fake is Carey’s brilliantly fictionalized spin on the greatest literary hoax in Australia’s colorful history.
“In the 1952s poet Christopher Chubb teaches Australia a lesson about pretension when he composes a body of sexually charge poems, then dupes a trendy literary magazine into believing the poems were written by the late Bob McCorkle, an undiscovered genius. But the trick backfires, and soon Chubb finds himself tormented by the very monster he creates. Decades later a literary editor named Sarah Wode-Douglass beings peeling back the layers of the Chubb mystery in, of all places, Malaysia -- where the reclusive poet remains in hiding.
“With its breathtaking scope and limitless inventiveness, My Life as a Fake is a triumph of the imagination. Carey’s masterful tale receives a sparkling narration by Susan Lyons, who provides authentic and compelling voices for the full cast of vivid characters.”
While I totally loved The True Story of the Kelly Gang a few months ago, I wasn’t a fan of this novel. Carey, I find, loves to take a real character and spin his take on what could have, would have, should have happened. Some parts of it were intriguing -- a bit about the background of the editor Sarah Wode-Douglass and her “boyfriend”, the kidnapping of Chubb’s daughter, and his ultimate demise.
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