Told through the alternating points of view of the brothers≻utchers urbane, intelligent, caustic observations contrasting with Hughs bizarre, frequently poetic, utterly unique voice Theft reminds us once again of Peter Careys remarkable gift for creating indelible, fascinating characters and a narrative as gripping as it is deliriously surprising. And she sets in motion a chain of events that could be the makingor the ruinof them all. Shes sweet to Hugh and falls in love with Butcher, and they reciprocate in kind. Beautiful, smart, and ambitious, shes also the daughter-in-law of the late great painter Jacques Liebovitz, one of Butchers earliest influences. Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey 269pp, Faber, 16.99 'If you are MAKING ART,' says a character in Peter Carey's magnificent new novel, 'the labour never ends, no peace, no Sabbath. Alone together theyve 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. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices.

'Butcher'≻oone 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.

Written with terrific verbal energy and a snide, lashing sense of. From the two-time Booker Prizewinning 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. The strength of Theft lies in its narrative voice and in Careys delight in his subject.

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