The Pretended Asian

The Pretended Asian
Author: Michael Keevak
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780814331989

The Pretended Asian also traces Psalmanazar's later career as a Grub Street hack writer and how his lifelong refusal to reveal his real identity - even after Europeans stopped believing he was a native of Formosa - may have rendered Psalmanazar a permanent outsider."--BOOK JACKET.