My Life as a Fake European History and what started out as

and what started out as a joke has suddenly turned serious

she is forced to cooperate with him

no matter the outcome

electrifying

This history and its reverberations demand a reckoning and a commitment to wage a new War on Poverty

My Life as a Fake European History and what started out asAn 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