Theft: A Love Story (Audiobook)

from sweetiegherkin

Michael "Butcher" Boone has hit on some hard times - recently divorced and his life work as an artist not only out of popularity but in the hands of his ex-wife - and to add on to his troubles, he's been appointed the guardian of both a rural estate belonging to a patron and his own brother Hugh,...

from ElizabethPisani

I'm a great fan of Peter Carey's in general, and this is a pretty good yarn. But the outback-to-Greenwich-village transition is bumpy. And I marvel that a writer who is supremely in command of internal dialogue should have such a poor command of conversation.

from BookConcierge

Book on CD narrated by Simon Vance 3*** Michael "Butcher" Boone used to be a famous painter. Now, following a messy divorce and a jail term and thanks to the largess of a former patron, he's living on a remote estate with his developmentally delayed brother, Hugh. One rainy day a beautiful young ...

from MykelBoard

Usually I hate love stories, but there's so much humor and irony in this one that it makes up for it. Well, plotted with tight twists and turns, and two voices (a painter and an idiot savant). Much of the writing is poetic... in a good sense. Beautiful similes, fine believable voices.

from Niecierpek

Great narration in two voices, one of somewhat passe famous painter, Bill (Butcher) Bones, and the other one of his slow and crazy brother, Hugh (Slow) Bones. In the end, one didn't prove crazier than the other; I liked them both, and the whole book with its plot, tempo and subject matter- art, a...