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Theft: A Love Story
by Peter Carey
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 2006. Hardback. Fine/Near Fine. 9" by 6". None. An exceptional signed first British edition of Peter Carey's Booker Prize-longlisted novel. Signed by the author to the title page. This work was awarded the Vance Palmer Prize in 2006. It follows the tale of Michael Boone, an artist, and his brother Hugh. It was also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.Written by Australian author Peter Carey, two-time Booker Prize winner.The first British edition of this work, which was first published in the United States. In the publisher's original paper covered boards with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper is in excellent condition. With the author's signature to the title page. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 800R14
- Title
- Theft: A Love Story
- Author
- Peter Carey
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 9" by 6"
- Keywords
- Peter Carey Theft Theft a Love Story Modern Fiction Theft
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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