Theft - Peter Carey

• Author: Peter Carey

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Michael Boone is an ex���"really famous" painter acting as caretaker for his younger brother, a damaged man of childlike emotional volatility. When a mysterious woman comes into their lives, she upsets their delicate equilibrium sets in motion a chain of events that could be the making���or the ruin���of them all.

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.

Psychological Fiction

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