Theft

I don''t know if my story is grand enough to be a tragedy, although a lot of shitty stuff did happen. It is certainly a love story but that did not begin until midway through the shitty stuff, by which time I had not only lost my eight-year-old son, b ut also my house and studio in Sydney where I had once been as famous as a painter could expect in his own backyard ...''So begins Peter Carey''s highly charged and lewdly funny new novel. Told by the twin voices of the artist Butcher Bones and his ''da maged 220-pound brother'' Hugh, it recounts their adventures and troubles after Butcher''s plummeting prices and spiralling drink problem force them to retreat to northern New South Wales. Here the formerly famous artist is reduced to being a caretaker for his biggest collector, and the nurse for his erratic brother. Then the mysterious Marlene turns up one stormy night, clad in a pair of Manolo Blahniks. 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. Once again displaying Peter Carey''s extraordinary flair for language, "Theft" is a love poem of a very different kind. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhat tan via Tokyo - and exploring themes of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption - this is a great novel which will also make you laugh out loud.
ISBN-10: 9780571231478 ISBN-13: 9780571231478 Páginas: 256 idioma: Português Edição: 1 Data edição: 1969-12-31 21:33:26 Encadernação: Brochura Autor: Peter Carey