false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171648532m/111102.jpg 111102 21 Peter Carey's <I>My Life as a Fake</I> is a literate mystery of forgeries and doppelgangers with a fictional manuscript at its heart. The mystery--the origin of a brilliant but purportedly faked poem--fuels a whirlwind pursuit through Australia and across the wilds of Malaysia. Grappling with her own childhood demons, Carey's bibliophile sleuth, Sarah Wode-Douglass, sometimes becomes lost in the exotic and bloody chase. <p> The novel opens as Sarah, the reluctant tourist and editor of <I>The Modern Review</I>, is dragged by a foppish poet-friend, John Slater, to Kuala Lumpur. Sarah is intent on biding her time in her hotel, but a chance encounter with a scabrous reader of Rilke soon transforms Sarah's plans and, ultimately, her life. The reader, the Australian poet Christopher Chubb, is the disgraced initiator of a great literary hoax--the faked poems of the non-existent Bob McCorkle. The McCorkle hoax was Chubb's attempt to bring down a rising poetry editor, David Weiss. When the hoax was exposed, Weiss was believed to have committed suicide. But, living in exile, Chubb has hidden a secret for decades: Bob McCorkle had seemingly materialized in human form, killing Weiss and destroying Chubb's life. Sarah is tantalized by a fragment of supposed McCorkle poetry that Chubb has shared with her. Whether it is a fake or the work of a madman, Sarah believes it is genius. Her obsession, however, drives her and Chubb to the precipice of self-destruction. <p> The primary story--Chubb's pursuit of McCorkle--lives in the fictional past, and the plot occasionally becomes muddled in the nest of narrators recalling conversations second or third hand. In playing out the McCorkle affair, Carey's denouement comes too quickly. If Sarah is transformed, Carey doesn't reveal enough of her in the text. He is mesmerized, as is the reader, by Chubb's horrific tale. <p> With its small shortcomings, the novel offers a sophisticated interrogation of authorship and fakery and the power of art. Carey avoids simplifying the McCorkle mystery, leaving the reader to puzzle out McCorkle's bizarre incarnation. While <I>My Life as a Fake</I> is frequently entertaining, the atmospheric mystery occasionally glimpses the profound. <I>--Patrick O'Kelley</I> 2128454 28 10 2003 My Life as a Fake total:571|5:69|4:183|3:213|2:77|1:29| 571 1899 807 82 5 2 false false Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Sep 20 23:50:45 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 01 14:19:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 04 11:14:02 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 14:45:28 -0700 2008 His Illegal Self was the first. I liked My Life as a Fake much more. The language is rich and organic mirroring the jungle in which it takes place. The plot pulled my along as well. It kept things a mystery until the end.
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