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  • Published: 3 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9781760896522
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $22.99

Theft: A Love Story





One of Peter Carey's most searingly inventive novels yet. Wise, funny, profound.

Michael ‘Butcher’ Boone is an ex-‘really famous’ painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. 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 the daughter-in-law of the late great painter Jacques Liebovitz. Soon Marlene sets in motion a chain of events that could be the making, or the ruin, of them all . . .

  • Published: 3 March 2020
  • ISBN: 9781760896522
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $22.99

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