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Shifting from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, this is Peter Carey’s brilliant and moving story of art, fraud, friendship and redemption. Theft: A Love Story once again displays Peter Carey's extraordinary flair for language. Australian artist Butcher Bones, fresh out of jail after robbing his ex-wife of his own paintings, is desperately trying to get his floundering career back on track while simultaneously avoiding his creditors. This balancing act is hindered by the necessity of managing Hugh, his 'damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother'. Enter the mysterious Marlene, Enter Marlene - a succulently sexual mystery woman with family ties to the mistress of legendary Picasso-like renegade painter Jacques Leibovitz - and the scene is set for a mesmerising adventure."The two-time Booker-winner’s ninth novel is a feisty ironic comedy focused on a failed painter who’d give Joyce Cary’s Gully Jimson a run for his money... The serpentine plot is a brain-squeezing beauty, cunningly elaborated through the juxtaposed first-person narrations of Butcher and Hugh... But it’s the author’s mastery of details of artists’ lives and the racy energy of his prose that make th

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Author

Sir Peter Carey, Peter Carey

Publisher

Vintage Canada

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781742748986

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.44 / 5 (155 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14