My Life as a Fake European History This history and its reverberations

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

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My Life as a Fake European History This history and its reverberationsAn 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