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A new novel about obsession, deception, and redemption, at once an engrossing psychological suspense story and a work of highly charged, fiendishly funny literary fiction.
Knopf
May 2006
272 pages
ISBN: 0307263711
Hardcover
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Fiction | Literature and Fiction
Michael--a.k.a. "Butcher"--Boone is an ex-"really famous"
painter: opinionated, furious, brilliant, and now reduced to
living in the remote country house of his biggest collector
and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh, a
damaged man of imposing physicality and childlike emotional
volatility. Alone together they've forged a delicate and
shifting equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when a
mysterious young woman named Marlene walks out of a
rainstorm and into their lives on three-inch Manolo Blahnik
heels. Beautiful, smart, and ambitious, she's also the
daughter-in-law of the late great painter Jacques Liebovitz,
one of Butcher's earliest influences. She's sweet to Hugh
and falls in love with Butcher, and they reciprocate in
kind. And she sets in motion a chain of events that could be
the making--or the ruin--of them all. Told through the alternating points of view of the
brothers--Butcher's urbane, intelligent, caustic
observations contrasting with Hugh's bizarre, frequently
poetic, utterly unique voice--Theft reminds us once again of
Peter Carey's remarkable gift for creating indelible,
fascinating characters and a narrative as gripping as it is
deliriously surprising.
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