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Theft : a love story / Peter Carey.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating Carey Theft
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carey, Peter, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists--Australia--Fiction.
- Artists.
- Brothers--Fiction.
- Brothers.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Australian fiction--21st century.
- Australian fiction.
- Painting--Forgeries--Fiction.
- Painting.
- Genre:
- Romance fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 269 p. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
- Summary:
- "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." From the bookjacket.
- Michael, a.k.a., "Butcher", Boone is an ex "very 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.--[book jacket].
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Green Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0307263711 (alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 62331104
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