num_pages: 269
description: 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 painter Jacques Liebovitz. Soon Marlene sets in motion a chain of events that could be the making--or the ruin--of them all.
language: English
title: Theft
titlecomplete: Theft
genres: Australia, Unfinished, Novels, Romance, Audiobook, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Art
ratings_count: 3502
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: New South Wales Premier's Literary Award
category: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Victorian Premier's Literary Award
category: Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA)
category: Literary Fiction
publisher: Vintage