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Theft : A Love Story
de Carey, Peter
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Fine /Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0571231470
- ISBN 13
- 9780571231478
- Librería
-
HINDHEAD, Surrey, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Faber & Faber. Signed by the author on the title page (without inscription). No faults, appears to be an unread copy. Dust jacket not price-clipped. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics. . Fine. Hardcover. First UK Edition, First Printing. 2006.
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 005637
- Título
- Theft : A Love Story
- Autor
- Carey, Peter
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First UK Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0571231470
- ISBN 13
- 9780571231478
- Editorial
- Faber & Faber
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006
- Tamaño
- 8.75" x "5.5".
- Palabras clave
- FICTION
Términos de venta
Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA
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Sobre el vendedor
Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA
Miembro de Biblio desde 2010
HINDHEAD, Surrey
Sobre Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA
Weysprings Books is an independent bookseller based in Surrey, UK, exclusively selling on the internet. We specialise in modern first editions. We use internationally accepted terms to describe our books and endeavour to reflect their true condition in our descriptions. We regret that, due to compliance regulations, we are unable to fulfil orders to Germany and France.
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