In Melbourne in the late 1940s, a young conservative poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. But over the ensuing years, his audacious act of literary ventriloquism takes on a much darker resonance.

My life as a fake

This novel, by the author of "Oscar and Lucinda", tells the story of a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell. For the first time in his life, Harry Joy sees the world as it really is, and takes up a notebook to explore and note down the true nature of the Underworld.

Bliss

Si vous ne connaissez pas la république d'Efica - un petit archipel de dix-huit îles situé entre le tropique du Capricorne et le 30e parallèle - ni le puissant pays colonisateur du Voorstand, distant de cinq mille kilomètres et beaucoup, beaucoup plus grand, vous ignorez donc tout de cette histoire...
Singulière. Ainsi que celle de la très belle actrice Felicity, Voorstandienne de naissance mais Eficaine d'adoption, directrice du théâtre d'avant-garde Le Feu follet, qui donna naissance d'une façon... singulière à Tristan Smith, qui, lui-même doté d'une apparence physique... singulière, a... singulièrement, trois pères.
Toute cette histoire... singulière, vous la trouverez dans ce roman fourmillant et riche : vous apprendrez comment Felicity s'engage politiquement et quel sera son sort ; comment un des pères de Tristan émigre à Voorstand pour rejoindre le Sirkus, spectacle fabuleux et omniprésent ; comment Tristan devient maître des arts du cirque et du théâtre ; comment, déguisé en Frère Souris - l'icône historique de la mythologie voorstandienne -, il fait d'une riche mécène sa maîtresse ; et beaucoup, beaucoup plus dans cette fantastique histoire inventée par le conteur Peter Carey, débordant d'imagination et de talent.
" Il sort de ce livre une énergie intense, une grande histoire d'une psychologie éblouissante.
" The Independent on Sunday " C'est un roman d'apprentissage picaresque et picturesque. L'énergie narrative de Peter Carey semble, incroyablement, croître de livre en livre... " Times Literary Supplément " Un magnifique carnaval de prestidigitation et de magie... une importante, époustouflante réussite. " The Sunday Times

La vie singuliere de tristan smith

Told by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones and his 'damaged 220-pound brother' Hugh, this book recounts their adventures and troubles after Butcher's plummeting prices and spiralling drink problem force them to retreat to northern New South Wales. This work explores themes of art, fraud, responsibility, and redemption.

Theft: A Love Story

Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush town house in Great Queen Street? In this novel, one of the finest of contemporary writers pays homage to his Victorian forebears.

Jack Maggs

Le nouveau roman de Peter Carey fait dialoguer deux voix et deux destins. Séparés par plus d'un siècle, deux êtres fous d'amour et de chagrin poursuivent le même but : alors qu'en 1854, Henry Brandling cherche un horloger capable de construire un jouet mécanique qui guérira son fils, en 2010 Catherine Gehrig affronte la mort de son amant secret en restaurant le même automate. Reliés par des carnets (que l'un écrit et que l'autre lit) et par leurs interrogations sur la mort, l'amour et la technique, ces deux personnages émouvants découvrent progressivement que ce jouet mécanique recèle des mystères bien plus grands. La Chimie des larmes est un grand roman sur la force créatrice et sa participation à notre capacité de résilience.

La Chimie des larmes

Now in its fifth edition, this invaluable handbook provides a complete guide to the practical application of data protection law. It is fully updated and expanded to include coverage of significant developments in the practice of data protection, and takes account of new legislation as well as guidance published by the Information Commissioner since the last edition. The fifth edition includes coverage of the EU General Data Protection'Regulation (GDPR); the implications of Brexit ; new guidance from the Information Commissioner's Office ; coverage of new cases on several aspects of data protection compliance ; the latest developments on electronic communications ; new chapters on accountability and the role of the Data Protection Officer, and creating a compliance programme. Dote Protection : A Practical Guide to UK and EU Law is essential reading for all those working with data protection issues, including in compliance departments in both the public and private sectors, as well as in-house and private practice lawyers, company secretaries, HR Officers, marketing executives and IT specialists. The book has been adopted as 'recommended reading' on the Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection Programme. List of contents : Territorial Scope and Terminology ; Data Protection Principles ; Fair, Lawful and Transparent Processing ; Special Categories of Data ; Data Security and Breach Notifications ; International Data Transfers ; The Rights of Individuals ; Enforcement and the Role of the Regulator ; Outsourcing Personal Data Processing ; Electronic Communications ; Data Protection Impact Assessments ; Accountability and the Role of the Data Protection Officer ; and, Creating a Compliance Programme. Appendices include : The General Data Protection Regulation, Addresses and Websites.

Data Protection - A Practical Guide to UK and EU Law

Che is raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, precocious son of radical Harvard students in the sixties. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents, denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long haired teenage neighbour who predicts they will come for you, man. They'll break you out of here.

His Illegal Self

Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake is a literate mystery of forgeries and doppelgangers with a fictional manuscript at its heart. The mystery--the origin of a brilliant but purportedly faked poem--fuels a whirlwind pursuit through Australia and across the wilds of Malaysia. Grappling with her own childhood demons, Carey's bibliophile sleuth, Sarah Wode-Douglass, sometimes becomes lost in the exotic and bloody chase.  The novel opens as Sarah, the reluctant tourist and editor of The Modern Review, is dragged by a foppish poet-friend, John Slater, to Kuala Lumpur. Sarah is intent on biding her time in her hotel, but a chance encounter with a scabrous reader of Rilke soon transforms Sarah's plans and, ultimately, her life. The reader, the Australian poet Christopher Chubb, is the disgraced initiator of a great literary hoax--the faked poems of the non-existent Bob McCorkle. The McCorkle hoax was Chubb's attempt to bring down a rising poetry editor, David Weiss. When the hoax was exposed, Weiss was believed to have committed suicide. But, living in exile, Chubb has hidden a secret for decades: Bob McCorkle had seemingly materialized in human form, killing Weiss and destroying Chubb's life. Sarah is tantalized by a fragment of supposed McCorkle poetry that Chubb has shared with her. Whether it is a fake or the work of a madman, Sarah believes it is genius. Her obsession, however, drives her and Chubb to the precipice of self-destruction.  The primary story--Chubb's pursuit of McCorkle--lives in the fictional past, and the plot occasionally becomes muddled in the nest of narrators recalling conversations second or third hand. In playing out the McCorkle affair, Carey's denouement comes too quickly. If Sarah is transformed, Carey doesn't reveal enough of her in the text. He is mesmerized, as is the reader, by Chubb's horrific tale.  With its small shortcomings, the novel offers a sophisticated interrogation of authorship and fakery and the power of art. Carey avoids simplifying the McCorkle mystery, leaving the reader to puzzle out McCorkle's bizarre incarnation. While My Life as a Fake is frequently entertaining, the atmospheric mystery occasionally glimpses the profound. --Patrick O'Kelley

My life as a fake

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