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''A Pack of Lies: Twelve Stories in One'' is a collection of short stories by children's author [=Geraldine McCaughrean=], first published in 1988.
It contains eleven short stories, each in a different genre and style. The twelfth is the frame story, in which a young man starts working at a secondhand shop, Povey's Antiquary, and sells objects to unlikely buyers by telling intriguing tales about their origins. As the book progresses, the family that owns the shop begins to wonder about him: Are his stories true, or just a pack of lies? ("''Fiction'', madam.") Where does ''he'' come from? What's ''his'' story?
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!!This book contains examples of:
* AuthorAvatar: The young man inserts an idealised version of himself into one of his own stories. [[spoiler:At the end of the book, he enters the story himself, preferring it to his real life]].
* AuthorPowers: [[spoiler:The implausible happenstances in the frame story turn out to be because it, too, is a story the young man is telling, and he keeps tweaking to help out his preferred characters]].
* FramingDevice: The story of Povey's Antiquary and its new employee.
* {{Metafiction}}: The book plays around with the meaning of fiction and the sometimes blurry line between stories and real life.
* NestedStoryReveal: [[spoiler:At the end, it turns out the frame story is itself a story the young man is telling]].
* NoticingTheFourthWall: [[spoiler:At the end, the Poveys realise that they, too, are characters in a story]].
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It contains eleven short stories, each in a different genre and style. The twelfth is the frame story, in which a young man starts working at a secondhand shop, Povey's Antiquary, and sells objects to unlikely buyers by telling intriguing tales about their origins. As the book progresses, the family that owns the shop begins to wonder about him: Are his stories true, or just a pack of lies? ("''Fiction'', madam.") Where does ''he'' come from? What's ''his'' story?
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!!This book contains examples of:
* AuthorAvatar: The young man inserts an idealised version of himself into one of his own stories. [[spoiler:At the end of the book, he enters the story himself, preferring it to his real life]].
* AuthorPowers: [[spoiler:The implausible happenstances in the frame story turn out to be because it, too, is a story the young man is telling, and he keeps tweaking to help out his preferred characters]].
* FramingDevice: The story of Povey's Antiquary and its new employee.
* {{Metafiction}}: The book plays around with the meaning of fiction and the sometimes blurry line between stories and real life.
* NestedStoryReveal: [[spoiler:At the end, it turns out the frame story is itself a story the young man is telling]].
* NoticingTheFourthWall: [[spoiler:At the end, the Poveys realise that they, too, are characters in a story]].
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