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. None of this, however, distracts Butcher from his overpowering love affair with Marlene, which threatens to leave Hugh stranded in an unforgiving world.

Peter Carey’s bilious protagonist Michael Butcher Boone is the intellectual black sheep of a rowdy Australian clan locally famous for its. Soon the brothers are embroiled in an international crime investigation that eventually comprises forgery, vast sums of money and murder. The two-time Booker-winner’s ninth novel is a feisty ironic comedy focused on a failed painter who’d give Joyce Cary’s Gully Jimson a run for his money. She is Marlene, wife of Olivier Leibovitz, son and heir to an early 20th-century master. One rain-flooded night, a chic young woman knocks on their door, having lost her way. 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. 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.

Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australias next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Butcher Boone is an all-id all-the-time Australian painter of enormous talent and renown. Peter Philip Carey AO (born ) is an Australian novelist. ) returns with a magnificent high-stakes art heist wrapped around a fraternal saga.

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