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Theft: A Love Story

by Peter Carey
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Theft: A Love Story
Theft: A Love Story

Tragicomedy of love, art, and sibling bonds.

If you've ever felt like life's dealt you a harsh hand, only to find an unexpected spark amidst the chaos, "Theft: A Love Story" might resonate with you. Peter Carey expertly weaves dark humor with poignant reflections on family, fame, and the nuanced passions of the human heart. It's a book that will likely challenge your thoughts on redemption and leave you pondering long after the last page.

  • Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2006)
  • New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Christina Stead Prize for Fiction (2007)
  • Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction (2006)
  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for Literary Fiction (2007)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Theft: A Love Story

by Peter Carey
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ISBN: 9781740512565
Authors: Peter Carey
Publisher: Knopf
Date of Publication: 2006-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Romance, Mystery/Crime/Thriller
Related Topics: Crime, Suspense, Literature, Thriller, Mystery
Goodreads rating: 3.43
(rated by 3616 readers)

Description

From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author and recipient of the Commonwealth Prize comes this new novel about obsession, deception, and redemption, at once an engrossing psychological suspense story and a work of highly charged, fiendishly funny literary fiction. Michael—a.k.a. “Butcher”—Boone is an ex–“really famous” painter: opinionated, furious, brilliant, and now reduced to living in the remote country house of his biggest collector and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh, a damaged man of imposing physicality and childlike emotional volatility. Alone together they’ve forged a delicate and shifting equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when a mysterious young woman named Marlene walks out of a rainstorm and into their lives on three-inch Manolo Blahnik heels. Beautiful, smart, and ambitious, she’s also the daughter-in-law of the late great painter Jacques Liebovitz, one of Butcher’s earliest influences. She’s sweet to Hugh and falls in love with Butcher, and they reciprocate in kind. And she sets in motion a chain of events that could be the making—or the ruin—of them all. Told through the alternating points of view of the brothers—Butcher’s urbane, intelligent, caustic observations contrasting with Hugh’s bizarre, frequently poetic, utterly unique voice—Theft reminds us once again of Peter Carey’s remarkable gift for creating indelible, fascinating characters and a narrative as gripping as it is deliriously surprising.
 

Tragicomedy of love, art, and sibling bonds.

If you've ever felt like life's dealt you a harsh hand, only to find an unexpected spark amidst the chaos, "Theft: A Love Story" might resonate with you. Peter Carey expertly weaves dark humor with poignant reflections on family, fame, and the nuanced passions of the human heart. It's a book that will likely challenge your thoughts on redemption and leave you pondering long after the last page.

  • Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2006)
  • New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Christina Stead Prize for Fiction (2007)
  • Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction (2006)
  • Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for Literary Fiction (2007)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.