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Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey (Hardcover Book, 2006) LIKE NEW
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- Publication Year
- 2006
- Publisher
- Random House Australia
- Title
- Theft: A Love Story
- ISBN
- 9781740512565
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Theft
- Item Height
- 240mm
- Topic
- Books
- Item Width
- 162mm
- Item Weight
- 580g
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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I don't 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 8-year-old son, but also my house and studio in Sydney where I had once been as famous as a painter could expect in his own backyard So begins Peter Carey's highly charged, recklessly funny new novel. Narrated by artist Butcher Bones and his 'damaged 220 lb brother' Hugh, it recounts their adventures and troubles after Butcher's plummeting prices and spiralling drink problem force them to retreat from Sydney to northern New South Wales. Here the formerly famous artist is reduced to acting as caretaker for his patron and nurse to his idiot-savant brother. Then mysterious American beauty Marlene turns up one stormy night, clad in a pair of Manolo Blahniks. Claiming that the brothers' neighbour owns an original Jacques Liebovitz, she sets in motion a chain of events that could be the making or ruin of them all. A truly brilliant novel - an act of fantastic writing bravura from Peter Carey, in which he once again displays his extraordinary flair for lan
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Random House Australia
ISBN-13
9781740512565
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Book Title
Theft
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
2006
Number of Pages
288 Pages
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Item Height
240mm
Item Width
162mm
Item Weight
580g
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Australia
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- 14 Jan, 2021
Compelling and entertaining read about characters who cheat and use each other’s flaws mercilessly in their mad quest for money and happiness.
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