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My Life as a Fake
by Carey, Peter
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/N/A
- ISBN 10
- 0571216196
- ISBN 13
- 9780571216192
- Seller
-
Jelutong, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 2003. Paperback. Very Good/N/A. With one of Australia's greatest hoaxes as his source material, Carey, one of Australia's grest living novelists, gives us a story, full of drama and entertaining writing, that takes us from Australia to Kuala Lumpur and Penang. Although this is a literary novel about a hoax poet, there's a good mix of violence an double crossing to give the story an extra bit of spice. 270 pages. Weight: 0.5.kg. * Post free within Malaysia. The book appears to be unread and just has some very minor rubbing to the cover and mild tanning throughout and medium tanning to the text block
Synopsis
Peter Carey received the Booker Prize for Oscar and Lucinda , and again for True History of the Kelly Gang . His other honors include the Commonwealth Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. The author of seven previous novels and a collection of stories, he was born in Australia in 1943 and now lives in New York City. From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Penang Bookshelf
(MY)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ML215
- Title
- My Life as a Fake
- Author
- Carey, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- N/A
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0571216196
- ISBN 13
- 9780571216192
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Malaysia Fiction
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Penang Bookshelf
Biblio member since 2010
Jelutong, Pulau Pinang
About The Penang Bookshelf
The Penang Bookshelf was set up in mid 2010 principally to introduce Malaysian residents to the variety of books there is available about the country both past and present. We only stock fiction and non-fiction related to Malaysia and the rest of Asia. Much of our current stock of over a thousand different titles is not available in Malaysia. Conversely much of our stock published in Malaysia is difficult to find outside the country. So if there\'s something Malaysia related that you\'re looking for, do please contact us and we\'ll do our best to help. At present details of most of our stock is not on line; we hope it will be eventually!
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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