CAREY, PETER — My Life As a Fake
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. 0375414983. First American Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0375414983. Stated first American Edition. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over red boards, silver lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle, photographic endpapers. Following the triumph of his Booker Prize-winning "True History of the Kelly Gang," Peter Carey ventures into the Far East with a novel shot through with mysteries at once historical, literary, and personal. Using a real literary hoax that transfixed Australia in Carey's boyhood, this is a novel of literary forgery and obsession which ranges from Melbourne to Malaysia, to Bali, to Sumatra and Java. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine, unread, unmarked condition. AS NEW/AS NEW.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (viii), 264, (12) pp. As New in As New dust jacket .
