MY LIFE AS A FAKE; A Novel by Peter Carey
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First American Edition. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with silver lettering on spine over red boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial B&W dust jacket (unclipped) with steel-nibbed pen designed by Chip Kidd, photographic half tone endpapers, [viii] + 265, [266] + [2] Blank + [2] Author's Note + [2] Blank + [2] Acknowledgements + [2] Blank + [2] A Note on the Type. 1 lbs 3.5 oz. Fine / Near Fine. Item #5984
ISBN: 0375414983
Peter Philip Carey AO (born 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey is one of only five writers to have won the Booker Prize twice.
My LIfe As A Fake is based on the Ern Malley hoax of 1943, in which two poets created a fictitious poet, Ern Malley, and submitted poems in his name to the literary magazine Angry Penguins.
INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the Author and in SUPERIOR CONDITION. Tight, bright, clean copy in a sharp and clean dust jacket (unclipped) that has traces of wear.
Price: $45.00