My Life as a Fake

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My Life as a Fake is a 2003 novel by Australian author Peter Carey that reimagines the Ern Malley literary hoax as a dark, metafictional tale about authorship, identity, and creation.

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instanceOf metafiction
novel
author Peter Carey NERFINISHED
authorNationality Australian
countryOfOrigin Australia
genre literary fiction
metafiction
hasAuthor Peter Carey NERFINISHED
hasSubject forgery
literary fraud
poetry
inspiredBy Ern Malley hoax NERFINISHED
literaryForm prose
mainTheme authorship
creation
identity
literary hoax
mediaType print
narrativePerspective first-person narration
notableFor dark metafictional treatment of authorship
reimagining the Ern Malley literary hoax
originalLanguage English
publicationCentury 21st century
publicationDate 2003
publisher Faber and Faber NERFINISHED
Knopf NERFINISHED
setting Australia NERFINISHED
Malaysia NERFINISHED

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Peter Carey notableWork My Life as a Fake