The first Penguin edition of Peter Carey's Theft: A Love Story, with a cover by Michael Leunig Michael 'Butcher' Boone is an ex-'really famous' painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they've forged a delicate equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when a mysterious young woman named Marlene walks out of a rainstorm and into their lives. Beautiful, smart, and ambitious, she's the daughter-in-law of the late great painter Jacques Liebovitz. Soon Marlene sets in motion a chain of events that could be the making, or the ruin, of them all . . . 'Brilliantly inventive . . . An authentic love story about two brothers who can't stand themselves, and can't live without each other.' Seattle Times 'The work of a novelist willing his way into greatness minute by gritty minute.' The Australian 'Utterly absorbing . . . Afire with passion, both love and loathing.' Los Angeles Times Book Review
- ISBN:
- 9780143573319
- 9780143573319
- Category:
- Contemporary fiction
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 22-04-2015
- Publisher:
- Penguin Australia Pty Ltd
- Pages:
- 288
- Dimensions (mm):
- 198x130x19mm
- Weight:
- 0.22kg
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