Books that Generated Controversy
Explore books that generated controversy, from Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer to Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake, plus provocative fiction and memoirs that sparked debate.
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A Cringe-Meister in the Bathos-Sphere
by Jason Earls
Max Reynolds failed as a writer. Yet Max Reynolds continues to write. He must write every day or he will sink into an almost catatonic depression. This is Max Reynolds' story, told mainly through samples of his writing.
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My Life as a Fake
by Peter Carey
Fiendishly devious and addictively readable, Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake is a moral labyrinth constructed around the uneasy relationship between literature and lying. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry journal, meets a mysterious Australian named Christopher Chubb. Chubb is a despised literary hoaxer, carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit. But in this dubious manuscript Sarah recognizes a work of real genius. But whose genius? As Sarah tries to secure the manuscript, Chubb draws her into a fantastic story of imposture, murder, kidnapping, and exile–a story that couldn’t be true unless its teller were mad. My Life as a Fake is Carey at his most audacious and entertaining.
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Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
The account of a young writer and his friends in free-wheeling Paris.
