by Peter Carey · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571231485
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«Theft: A Love Story» is the psychological suspense novel by Peter Carey, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Michael «Butcher» Boone, once a famous artist, retired in the countryside, cares for his younger brother Hugh. The arrival of Marlene, an ambitious young woman and daughter-in-law of the painter Jacques Liebovitz, disrupts his life and sets off a plot about art, fraud and redemption. The novel alternates the brothers' voices and blends psychological suspense and humour.
Originally published in 2006, it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Christina Stead Prize.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and psychological suspense, with two opposing narrative voices.
Peter Philip Carey is an Australian novelist who has lived in New York City for more than three decades.
