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Theft eBooks
by Peter Carey
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Theft Summary
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A two-time Booker Prize-winner and two-time recipient of the Commonwealth Prize, Peter Carey is the author of eight novels, a collection of short stories, and two books of non-fiction. Born in Australia, he now lives in New York City. From the Hardcover edition. |
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Ferocious and funny, penetrating and exuberant, Theft is two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter CareyÆs master class on the things people will do for art, for love . . . and for money. ôI donÆt know if my story is grand enough to be a tragedy, although a lot of shitty stuff did happen. It is certainly a love story but that did not begin until midway through the shitty stuff, by which time I had not only lost my eight-year-old son, but also my house and studio in Sydney where I had once been famous as a painter could expect in his own backyard. . .ö So begins Peter CareyÆs highly charged and lewdly funny new novel. Told by the twin voices of the artist, Butcher Bones, and his ôdamaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brotherö Hugh, it recounts their adventures and troubles after ButcherÆs plummeting prices and spiralling drink problem force them to retreat to New South Wales. Here the formerly famous artist is reduced to being a caretaker for his biggest collector, as well as nurse to his erratic brother. Then the mysterious Marlene turns up in Manolo Blahniks one stormy night. Claiming that the brothersÆ friend and neighbour owns an original Jacques Liebovitz, she soon sets in motion a chain of events that could be the making or ruin of them all. Displaying CareyÆs extraordinary flare for language, Theft is a love poem of a very different kind. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo û and exploring themes of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption û this great novel will make you laugh out loud. From the Hardcover edition. |
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