Carey, Peter

My Life as a Fake

The editor of a London poetry magazine, Sarah Wode-Douglass accompanies John Slater, an elderly poet who had figured prominently in her parents' marital woes, to Malaysia, where Slater reveals a ruinous decades-old hoax and produces a manuscript whose provenance is marked by exile, kidnapping, and death. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.