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THEFT: A Love Story
de Carey, Peter
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
Sydney: Knopf, 2006. Pp. [iv]+272(last blank); cream papered boards, spine and upper board stamped in blind, a trifle bruised at foot of spine; fore-edges uncut; dust wrapper; ribbon marker; Knopf, Sydney, 2006. First edition, deckle edged issue. *Signed by the author on the title page. The novel was simultaneously published in two issues, one with a deckled fore-edge and ribbon marker, the other (the present copy) with all edges cut. Longlisted for the Booker and shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Winner of the NSW Premier's Award and the Victorian Premier's Award.
Sinopsis
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."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, but also my house and studio in Sydney where I had once been 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 "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.Displaying Carey's extraordinary flare for language, Theft is a love poem of a very different kind. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo -- and exploring themes of art, fraud, responsibility and redemption -- this great novel will make you laugh out loud.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Título
- THEFT: A Love Story
- Autor
- Carey, Peter
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- Usado
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- Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- Sydney
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006
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