Which Australian author wrote "Theft: a Love Story"?

Answer 1

Hi, Cremedelacreme,
"Theft" :" A Love Story"
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Two-time Booker-winner : "Peter Carey" (Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang) returns with a magnificent high-stakes art heist wrapped around a fraternal saga. Butcher Boone is an all-id all-the-time Australian painter of enormous talent and renown. Now divorced and bankrupted by his former wife, who tired of his excesses, Butcher has been reduced to caretaking a remote estate for his largest collector... And since the deaths of his working-class parents, he has also been saddled with his beloved, bedeviling brother, Hugh, who, like Butcher, has a primarily pugilistic relationship with the world....
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Story :
One rain-flooded night, a chic young woman knocks on their door, having lost her way... She is Marlene, wife of Olivier Leibovitz, son and heir to an early 20th-century master.... Soon the brothers are embroiled in an international crime investigation that eventually comprises forgery, vast sums of money and murder.... None of this, however, distracts Butcher from his overpowering love affair with Marlene, which threatens to leave Hugh stranded in an unforgiving world.... Scenes in Australia, Japan and New York feature unique forms of fleecing, but setting and action are icing on the emotional core of Carey's newest masterwork... :)
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Peter Carey, was born in "Bacchus Marsh" in Victoria, Australia, in 1943.... He studied Science at Monash University, and wrote advertising copy to support himself during the early part of his literary career... Australian identity and historical context play a part in several of his literary works...
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He began by writing surreal short stories, and published two collections, War Crimes (1979), and The Fat Man in History (1980).... These stories, along with three previously uncollected works, are all included in his Collected Stories ...
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He then wrote 3 novels : Bliss (1981), about an advertising executive who has an out-of-body experience; Illywhacker (1985), a huge vision of Australian history told through the memoirs of a 100-year old confidence man or "illywhacker"; and Oscar and Lucinda (1988), a complex symbolic tale of the arrival of Christianity in Australia... Although not a science fiction writer as such, there are some elements of this in his writing, particularly in Illywhacker, which led to this novel receiving the Ditmar Award for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel and being shortlisted for the "World Fantasy Award", for Best Novel, both in 1986... Illywhacker was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1985, and three years later, Oscar and Lucinda won the same prize....
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While writing his next novel, The Tax Inspector (1991), Peter Carey moved to New York, and has since written four further novels : The Unusual Life of Tristran Smith (1994); Jack Maggs (1997), billed as a re-imagining of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations; True History of the Kelly Gang (2001), told in fictional letters from the Australian outlaw and folk hero Ned Kelly to his estranged daughter; and My Life as a Fake (2003), a story centred around a literary hoax which gripped Australia in the 1940s. Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang both won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Overall Winner, Best Book) and with True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey won the Booker Prize for Fiction for the second time, in 2001....
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Peter Carey, still lives in New York, where he teaches Creative Writing at New York University.... He has been awarded three honorary degrees and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Australian Academy of Humanities and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.....
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Thanks, for the question!;)

My regards!

Answer 2

"Theft: a Love Story" is authored by multi-literary awardee Peter Philip Carey, an Australian novelist born in Victoria, lived in Melbourne, London and Sydney and is now based in New York, being the director of the Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York.

Theft: a Love Story is a 2006 novel about obsession, deception, and redemption, at once an engrossing psychological suspense story and a work of highly charged, fiendishly funny literary fiction.
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Answer 3

Peter Carey