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PAPERY PASSIONS.(My Life as a Fake)(Book Review)
Rebecca Mead on the marriage market
Peter Carey's new novel, "My Life as a Fake" (Knopf; $24), is so confidently brilliant, so economical yet lively in its writing, so tightly fitted and continuously startling in its plot that something, we feel, must be wrong with it. It ends in a bit of a rush, and left several questions dangling in this reader's mind. Unfortunately, to spell out those questions would be to betray too much of an intricate fictional construct where little is as it first seems and fantastic developments unfold like scenes on a fragile paper fan. To be brief: the narrator and heroine is Sarah Elizabeth Jane Wode-Douglass, the spinster editor of ...
- `Fuck all editors': the Ern Malley affair and Gwen Harwood's Bulletin scandal....
- Journal of Australian Studies Atherton, Cassandra January 1, 2002 700+ words
...Australian literary hoaxes. The first was the Ern Malley Hoax; the second Gwen Harwood's Bulletin...creation of the `great aussie battler' Ern Malley and Gwen Harwood was the quaintly titled...construction of enduring literary figures. Ern Malley and Walter Lehmann were believed by ...
- The importance of being Ern. (Ern Malley, Australian hoax poet)
- Magazine article from: National Review Heyward, Michael April 17, 1995 700+ words
...pathos in equal measure, the poetry of Ern Malley is surely the greatest literary hoax...durable, so fascinating, so arguable. Ern Malley was invented to prove a point about the...are far from being resolved. Who was Ern Malley? There was a time in June 1944 when...
- Ern Malley and His Rivals.(interpretation of literary periodical rivals)
- Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies LLOYD, BRIAN May 1, 2001 700+ words
...attributed to a fictional author, `Ern Malley', whose work mimics the magazine...imagination of reviewers of his book The Ern Malley Affair, Michael Heyward referred to...clearly a need to do this. Although Ern Malley's Darkening Ecliptic is arguably the...
- Ern Malley's Sister.(Poem)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Galloway, Elizabeth July 1, 2006 700+ words
ERN MALLEY'S SISTER She sprang into life Just like her balderdash brother He suitably attired For further inspection She in drab garb But...
- 'FAKE' GETS REAL INTERESTING.(EDITORIAL)
- Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI) November 21, 2003 700+ words
...hoax, nicknamed "The Ern Malley Affair," that took...fictional poet named Ern Malley and submitted some nonsense...itinerant Australian named Christopher Chubb, who decades ago was involved in an Ern Malley-type hoax, in which...
- The agony of deceit; Untangling mesh of lies hardly worth the effort.(Arts and...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Johnson, J.L. November 23, 2003 700+ words
...1944, a pair of Australian poets invented a writer named Ern Malley, giving him a biography and sending his "work" to literary...McCorkle, a hulking bicycle repairman dreamed up by poet Christopher Chubb to fool an editor he despises. Chubb succeeds - tragically...
- Haunted by a hoax; What started as a prank leaves the joker 'a soul in hell'.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) September 8, 2003 700+ words
...Peter Carey follows closely the real life cause celebre of Ern Malley. Malley was the brainchild of two mischievous Australian...discovered. In Carey's version there is one hoaxer, Christopher Chubb, and his invented poet is called Bob McCorkle. As in the...
- Books: Book lines.(Features)
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) September 20, 2003 700+ words
...shophouse reading verses by Rilke. He turns out to be Christopher Chubb, an embittered Australian pedant who has been comprehensively...he draws the reader in to the nightmarish comeuppance of Christopher Chubb with masterly skill. Along the way there is much black...
