出版社: Knopf
副标题: A Love Story
出版年: 2006-05-09
页数: 224
定价: USD 24.00
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307263711
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From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author and recipient of the Commonwealth Prize comes this new novel about obsession, deception, and redemption, at once an engrossing psychological suspense story and a work of highly charged, fiendishly funny literary fiction.
Michael—a.k.a. “Butcher”—Boone is an ex–“really famous” painter: opinionated, furious, brilliant, ...
From the two-time Booker Prize–winning author and recipient of the Commonwealth Prize comes this new novel about obsession, deception, and redemption, at once an engrossing psychological suspense story and a work of highly charged, fiendishly funny literary 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.</p>
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彼得·凯里(Pete r carey),1943年生于墨尔本市郊小镇,曾在大学学习化学,未及毕业改做广告设计,后游历欧洲并转向文学创作,现居住在纽约。
凯里是当代澳大利亚文学领军人物,作品已被翻译成二十多种文字。是世界惟一的两位二度荣获布克奖的作家之一,另一位则是南非的诺贝尔文学奖得主库切。因此有评论家预言,凯里将是诺贝尔文学奖最有力的竞争者。凯里的作品怪诞、幽默,具有寓言式小说和科幻小说的特征。
因书写《凯利帮真史》等历史题材的小说而被誉为澳大利亚“民族神话创造者”的凯里,是一位关注现代人生存困境、具有国际色彩的作家。
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