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Peter carey, born in australia, is best known for his books oscar and lucinda and true history of the kelly gang. Twotime booker prize winner peter carey, author of true history of the kelly gang, crafts a brilliantly fictionalized take on the greatest hoax in australias colorful history. My life as a fake, carey questions the very nature of art, here suggesting how not only art can be faked, but the very process of validating art, too. Carey does an excellent job at recreating postwar australia, and 1950s and.
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