Theft: A Love Story

Michael 'Butcher' Boone was once a celebrated painter in Sydney. Now divorced, bankrupt, cut off from his young son and fond of the bottle, he lives as caretaker on a collector's property in northern New South Wales and looks after his huge, damaged brother Hugh; the two take turns telling the story. On a rain-soaked night a glamorous stranger, Marlene, arrives in designer shoes. She is married to the heir of a famous early twentieth-century artist, and her claim that a neighbour owns one of his originals pulls the brothers into a game of forgery, money and art-market deceit that carries them on to Tokyo and New York, while Butcher falls hard for her and Hugh fears being left behind.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Love, Crime, Satire (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia, Japan, United States

First published

2006

Author's age

63 when first published

ISBN

9780307263711 (Alfred A. Knopf, United States)

9781740512565 (Knopf, Australia)

9780571231478 (Faber & Faber, United Kingdom)

9780307276483 (Vintage, United States)

9780571231508 (Faber & Faber, United Kingdom)

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