false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169432514m/40215.jpg 40215 20 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. 1266528 2 5 2006 Theft: A Love Story total:594|5:81|4:207|3:199|2:75|1:32| 594 2012 958 122 5 4 false false Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 13:27:04 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 20:42:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Sep 18 08:05:37 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 08:10:08 -0700 2007 My Life as a Fake and Wrong About Japan, and didn’t like either of them. I just couldn’t get hooked into the effusively praised My Life as a Fake, and Wrong About Japan, though it had a few clever insights, seemed too slight to be a book.

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I kept thinking that Slow Bones was going to surprise us all with some revelation at the end, his tone held that tinge of menace, and t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 25 09:39:50 -0700 2008 Tue Dec 02 11:25:28 -0800 2008 1 The Kelly Gang, I was ready to walk through fire if Peter Carey said, "Go."

Sadly, it didn't quite live up to my expectations. Don't get me wrong--it was good, it was enjoyable, and it was intriguing. Maybe I need to be a little m...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 03 15:00:02 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 15:07:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 17:18:24 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 14:34:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 08:56:23 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 08:57:06 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 10:23:59 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 13:46:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 15 05:39:49 -0700 2007 Sun Dec 09 03:16:54 -0800 2007 My Life as a Fake, and viewed through the lens of my inability to even get through chapter one of Oscar and Lucinda, and my strong dislike of the overly mannered and badly-ended True History of the Kelly Gang, I wasn't expecting to like this book half as much as I did...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 18 05:33:40 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 12 20:55:23 -0700 2007
I've heard it said that Carey gets as nutty as fruitcake every time he writes a novel, and I wonder if there is any veracity in this, as I often find the potential of...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Apr 18 02:17:35 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 18 03:41:23 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 14:34:01 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 13:37:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Dec 27 07:28:34 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 07:35:20 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Apr 12 12:46:04 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 17:21:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=40215