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Theft: A Love Story

A Love Story

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Theft: A Love Story

By: Peter Carey
Narrated by: Stan Pretty
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Michael 'Butcher' Boone is an ex - 'really famous' painter 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 emotions. 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, 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. Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction
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I finished this a month ago and I still miss the characters. I can feel their loss like that of a close family member! The narration is fantastic, drawing you into the distinctly loveable, flawed characters.

Peter Carey just gets better and better

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An intricate, tapestry of love (in many forms) art, psychopathy, but not a heavy listen. Narrator brilliant too.

Poignant and funny

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Very well told story in two voices, entertaining and quick moving.
The intricacies of the art world got a little confusing at times (probably more to do with my inattention rather than the story itself) but it certainly is a story centred around a story of real developing love and deep rooted love between the brothers which is an endlessly fascinating relationship and perfectly plausible.
very good though long. Very much worth the effort.

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The details made the story more believable as the characters involved became more real. The landscape was vivid and the characters truthful

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Would you ever listen to anything by Peter Carey again?

I have listened to a number of Carey's book and generally enjoy them. The continuous use of swear words I found unacceptable

How did the narrator detract from the book?

His slow measured tone had me switching off after 5 - 10 minutes. I tried increasing the speed but that did not help at all

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Theft?

Not having read more that 1 hour I cannot comment

Any additional comments?

Just not for me sorry

Narration style and bad language not for me

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