Theft: A Love Story

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 also 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.

Author: Peter Carey
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 05/08/2007
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780307276483

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/24/2007 pg. 28

About the Author
Peter Carey is the author of nine novels, including the Booker Prize-winning Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. Born in Australia in 1943, he now lives in New York City.