Theft

Peter Carey

first published 2006 Tantor Media, 2006 audiobook

Clipper large print

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 pa...

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Editions we hold

Theft edition · 2015 · Penguin Random House · 288 pages · 9780143573319
Theft edition · 2010 · Faber & Faber, Limited · 9780571267118
Haut vol (French Edition) edition · 2007 · Christian Bourgois Editeur · 9782267019032
Theft paperback · 2007 · Vintage · 288 pages · 9780307276483
Theft paperback · 2007 · Vintage Canada · 288 pages · 9780679314646
Theft edition · 2007 · Faber And Faber Ltd. · 9780571231492
Theft edition · 2007 · Random House Australia · 288 pages · 9781741666984
Theft edition · 2007 · Faber · 304 pages · 9780571231508
Diefstal edition · 2007 · Atlas · 320 pages · 9789045013305
Theft hardcover · 2006 · Alfred A. Knopf · 269 pages
THEFT: A LOVE STORY. hardcover · 2006 · FABER AND FABER · 256 pages · 9780571231478
Theft ebook · 2006 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9780307265272

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