Theft

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• 'Theft: A Love Story' by Peter Carey

  The wonderful and intriguing world of art forgery is explored in Theft: A Love Story, the Booker shortlisted novel by Australian author Peter Carey. In my experience, reading anything by Peter Carey can be a bit of a hit or miss affair. There are cer ... (read full critics)

  readingmatters published on Tue, 28 Sep 2010

• The sacred in the profane

  Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey 269pp, Faber, £16.99 "If you are MAKING ART," says a character in Peter Carey's magnificent new novel, "the labour never ends, no peace, no Sabbath, just eternal churning and cursing and worrying and fretting." Care ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

2 Reviews

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  I thought the book is worth to read when I read the cover, but I just found that it's tediously long reading and I got carried away with other things or falling asleep easily. I'm still clueless (kind of) after the reading.

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  S.E. said on Feb 26, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  A lot of fun and more relaxed than earlier Peter Carey. Less of the fabulistic than favorites like 'Bliss' and 'Oscar and Lucinda'. This is an excellent heist story combined with a bawdy satire of the 'genius artist descending into hell' portrait ( cf The Horses Mouth). Starts at a perfect cracking ... (continue)

  A lot of fun and more relaxed than earlier Peter Carey. Less of the fabulistic than favorites like 'Bliss' and 'Oscar and Lucinda'. This is an excellent heist story combined with a bawdy satire of the 'genius artist descending into hell' portrait ( cf The Horses Mouth). Starts at a perfect cracking pace and never falters.

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  huntch said on Jun 2, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 260 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0571231497
• ISBN-13: 9780571231492
• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Pub date: Jan 04, 2007
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Slovenske knjige

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