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Jan 1, 2006 · Theft: A Love Story is a novel, by Australian writer Peter Carey. It won the 2006 Vance Palmer Prize, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award prize for fiction. Theft is the story of Michael "Butcher" Boone, an Australian artist, whose career is having an early, and comprehensive twilight.
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Theft: A Love Story is a novel by Australian writer Peter Carey. It won the 2006 Vance Palmer Prize, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award prize for fiction.
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May 9, 2006 · 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.
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Theft is the story of an australian artist now fallen out of favor who is saddled with the care of his retarded brother, Hugh. After his acrimonious divorce he falls in love with the beautiful sociopathic young wife of the son of a now deceased famous artist.
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Jun 18, 2010 · Ferocious and funny, penetrating and exuberant, Theft is two-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey’s master class on the things people will do for art, for love . . . and for money.
Alone together they’ve forged a delicate equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when a mysterious young woman named Marlene walks out of a rainstorm and into their lives. Beautiful, smart, and ambitious, she’s also the daughter-in-law of the late great painter Jacques Liebovitz.
May 21, 2006 · 'Theft: A Love Story,' by Peter Carey. The Kangaroo's Mouth. Share full article. Review by Paul Gray. May 21, 2006. Almost all the protagonists in Peter Carey's fiction display a compulsion...
