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My Life as a Fake
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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Summary
An Australian literary hoax lies at the core of My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey's captivating 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 whose genius? She is drawn into a fantastic story of imposture, murder, kidnapping and exile, which couldn't be true unless its teller were mad. Or perhaps haunted.
My Life as a Fake is a Frankenstein story in which what is imagined comes to life and exacts its due.
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- Deedee
- 22-01-23
Stunning narration of a fantastical story based on historical events
Peter Carey’s creative storytelling swoops and turns through the heat of the humid backstreets of Kuala Lumpur. A dark and
entertaining tale based on an historical case of a fraudster and the literary vulture culture that created a monster are immensely powerful.
The narrator nails a voice for every character. Stunning.
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- Penny B
- 20-07-21
Well, wow..
This is an infinite star experience. Story, reader, and writer, fuse together in perfect synthesis to create the ultimate listening experience. If you turn away, you will be missing something unique, something truly special.
Peter Carey is a genius, of course. And Emma Gregory interprets him magically, as though she were the spirit of his pen. The story has its seed in a real life event, and so the work forms a kind of memorial. It is a sparkling fabric and a kind of reinterpretation - an inside out re-telling - of the myth of Pygmalion… but it is also much, much more than this. It is exotic and fabulous, but the language in which it is told, its grammar and phraseology elegant, sublime, is also earthy and absolutely true to its Australian genesis. I would not have missed this audiobook for the world, and yet I stumbled across it, serendipitously. Thanks to all involved in bringing it into being.
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