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"A former painter lives in the country with his damaged brother and their lives are strongly affected by the appearance of the daughter-in-law of one of his early influences."
"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]."
"Once again displaying Peter Carey's flair for language, 'Theft' is a love poem of a very different kind. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it explores themes of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption."@en
"Once again displaying Peter Carey's flair for language, 'Theft' is a love poem of a very different kind. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, it explores themes of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption."
""In 1960 the West Indies arrive in Australia and Michael, who is sixteen, is enthralled. If, like his heroes, he has the gift of speed, he will move beyond his suburb into the great world ... As his summer unfolds, Michael realises that there are other ways to live. When the calypso chorus accompanying Frank Worrell and his team fades, Michael has learnt many things ... about his parents, a girl called Kathleen Marsden, and about himself. The Gift of Speed is a masterful blend of story-telling, memorable characters and a uniquely Australian sensibility by a novelist at the height of his powers."--Provided by publisher."
"Michael 'Butcher' Boone is an ex, really famous painter 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 emotions. 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, 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 by the twin voices of the artist, Butcher Bones, and his "damaged two-hundred-and-twenty-pound brother" Hugh, it recounts their adventures and troubles after Butcher's plummeting prices and spiralling drink problem force them to retreat to New South Wales. Here the formerly famous artist is reduced to being a caretaker for his biggest collector, as well as nurse to his erratic brother. Then the mysterious Marlene turns up in Manolo Blahniks one stormy night. Claiming that the brothers' friend and neighbour owns an original Jacques Liebovitz, she soon sets in motion a chain of events that could be the making or ruin of them all."@en
""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."
"Narrated by artist Butcher Bones and his 'damaged 220 lb brother' Hugh, Theft recounts their adventures and troubles after Butcher's plummeting career and spiralling drink problem force them to retreat from Sydney to northern New South Wales. Here the formerly famous artist is reduced to acting as caretaker for his patron and nurse to his idiot-savant brother. Then mysterious American beauty Marlene turns up one stormy night, clad in a pair of Manolo Blahniks. Claiming that the brothers' neighbour owns an original Jacques Liebovitz, she sets in motion a chain of events that could be the making or ruin of them all."@en
"Een mysterieuze jonge vrouw beïnvloedt het leven en de marktwaarde van bijna vergeten kunstenaars en hun erfgenamen."
"08tcher Bones, peintre australien de grand talent, divorcé et ruiné, est réduit à surveiller le domaine d'un de ses mécènes et doit veiller sur son frère Hugh légèrement attardé. Par une nuit de tempête, Marlene Leibovitz vient à la recherche d'un tableau qui se trouve chez les voisins des Bones. Les frères sont entraînés dans une enquête qui mêle faussaires, argent et meurtres."
"Told by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones and his 'damaged 220-pound brother' Hugh, this book recounts their adventures and troubles after Butcher's plummeting prices and spiralling drink problem force them to retreat to northern New South Wales - This work explores themes of art, fraud, responsibility, and redemption."

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"Texts"
"Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
"Love stories"
"Love stories"@en
"Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
"Action thriller"@en
"Roman australien"
"Fiction"
"Fiction"@en
"Romans (teksten)"
"l+"
"Electronic books"@en
"Audiobooks"
"Bestseller 2006 (Englisch)"
"Belletristische Darstellung"

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"Robo : una historia de amor"@es
"Robo : una historia de amor"
"Kradiz︠h︡ka"
"Liebe eine Diebesgeschichte ; Roman"
"Furto : una storia d'amore"@it
"Furto : una storia d'amore"
"Haut vol : histoire d'amour : roman"
"Furto : una storia dámore"
"Liebe : Eine Diebesgeschichte"
"Klopē : mia erōtikē historia : mythistorēma"
"Kražba"
"Liebe : eine Diebesgeschichte"
"Haut vol : histoire d'amour"
"Theft a love story"
"Theft a love story"@en
"Theft"
"Theft : a love story"@en
"Theft : a love story"
"Genevah"
"Krazha : istorii︠a︡ li︠u︡bvi"
"Tatvina : ljubezenska zgodba"@sl
"Tatvina : ljubezenska zgodba"
"Theft, a love story"
"Złodziejstwo czyli Historia miłosna"@pl
"Diefstal : een liefdesverhaal"
"Кража : история любви"
"Złodziejstwo czyli historia miłosna"
"Theft: a love story"
"Theft: a love story"@en
"גנבה"
"Haut vol"
"Haut vol : Histoire d'amour"
"Liebe : eine Diebesgeschichte ; Roman"
"Theft : A Love Story"

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