9780375414985 - My Life As a Fake von Carey, Peter (15 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Zustand: As New. Like New condition. Like New dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. With remainder mark. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. minor wear and creasing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. First US Edition. Quarter red cloth with gold lettering stamped on spine; red paper over boards. 266 pages. 1st American Edition, presumed 1st printing. CONDITION: Book FINE, slight shelf wear, lightly bumped corners, text unmarked; DJ FINE, lightly rubbed, no tears, not clipped, protected in a clear archival (Mylar) cover. >Guaranteed secure packaging, free tracking, and no-hassle return policy.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. Special Edition. Advance Reader's Edition of Uncorrected Proof in paperback of First American Edition. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE condition. "Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry magazine, had grown up knowing the famous John Slater, who figured prominently in the disaster that was her parents' marriage. So when he proposes that she accompany him to Malaysia, Sarah embarks on a journey that becomes, instead, an obsession. Her discoveries spiral outward from a destitute Australian she encounters in the steamy, fetid city of Kuala Lumpur: the man is mad, Slater warns her, and then explains the ruinous hoax he'd committed decades earlier. But lurking behind his peculiarity and arrogance, Sarah senses, is artistic genius, in the form of a manuscript he teases her with and which she soon would do anything to acquire. But the provenance of this work, she gradually learns, is marked by kidnapping, exile, and death--a relentless saga that reaches from Melbourne to Bali, Sumatra, and Java, and that more than once compels her back to Malaysia without ever disclosing all of its secrets, only the power of the imagination and the price it can exact from those who would wield it." [publisher copy] "Complex and masterful. A few lines from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein preface Carey's novel, and the dark themes of that story pulse with fresh vigor through the veins of MY LIFE AS A FAKE. Carey's prose is sparse but sharp throughout his story, never missing its target and not taking long to get there. Like Shelley so many years earlier, Carey has created a haunting story whose surreal events are as captivating and memorable as the misguided aspirations of its characters."--Thomas Haley, Minneapolis Star-Tribune. "The tale is a tour de force, with a positively Graham Greene-ish relish in the seamy side of the tropics, a mix of literary detective story and murderous nightmare that is piquantly hair-raising. And just when it seems that Carey's story is his greatest fantastic creation to date, he lets on that the hoax at the heart of it actually took place in Melbourne in 1946. As so often before, this extravagantly gifted writer has created something bewilderingly original and powerful."--Publishers Weekly. Pristine paperback ARE w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine & no jacket as issued.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good - Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good - Fine. First American Edition. A novel shot through with mysteries historical, literary, and personal. Signed by the author on the title page. A very good or better copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Zustand: As New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New. First American Edition. First Printing. Stated first American Edition. Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over red boards, silver lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle, photographic endpapers. Following the triumph of his Booker Prize-winning "True History of the Kelly Gang," Peter Carey ventures into the Far East with a novel shot through with mysteries at once historical, literary, and personal. Using a real literary hoax that transfixed Australia in Carey's boyhood, this is a novel of literary forgery and obsession which ranges from Melbourne to Malaysia, to Bali, to Sumatra and Java. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine, unread, unmarked condition. AS NEW/AS NEW. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (viii), 264, (12) pp.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Very Fine. 1st. Advance Reader's Edition of the First American Edition. Softcover 8 vo. wrappers, with publisher's comment postcard laid in. Published NY: Knopf, 2003. Near very fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf [2003]. First Edition. First Printing. Hardbound. Fine/fine. Signed by author on title page (name only). Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Zustand: F-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: F-. First US. F-/F-. 8vo. original black backed red boards gilt, uncut (inscrip. to blank prelim.) in dustwrapper priced $24.00 (a trifle rubbed & sunned); pp. [x (last blank)], 274, with pictorial endpapers. A near fine copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: used: good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDFictionGood condition, some wear to edges, minor tear on dustjacket, bumped tips, prompt shipping with tracking.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Scuffed wraps with no other defects. "Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry magazine, had grown up knowing the famous and infamous John Slater. And because he figured prominently in the disaster that was her parents' marriage, when Slater proposes that she accompany him to Malaysia, Sarah embarks out of curiosity on a journey that becomes, instead, a lifelong obsession. Her discoveries spiral outward from Christopher Chubb, a destitute Australian she meets by chance in the steamy, fetid city of Kuala Lumpur. He is mad, Slater warns her, explaining the ruinous hoax Chubb had committed decades earlier. But lurking behind the man's peculiarity and arrogance, Sarah senses, is artistic genius, in the form of a manuscript he teases her with and which she soon would do anything to acquire. The provenance of this work, she gradually learns, is marked by kidnapping, exile, and death - a relentless saga that reaches from Melbourne to Bali, Sumatra, and Java, and that more than once compels her back to Malaysia without ever disclosing all of its secrets, only the power of the imagination and the prices it can exact from those who would wield it."--BOOK JACKET. ISBN 0375414983. Book.