5/26/2023 0 Comments Theft by peter carey![]() ![]() Two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey writes his most dazzling novel yet, a send-up of the art world, filled with satire about dealers, auction houses, compulsive collectors, forgers, conservators and technicians, art researchers, catalogue writers, those who crate and ship paintings, and even the artists themselves. Shame, doubt, self-loathing, all this we eat for breakfast every day." We live with the knowledge that, alongside Cezanne or Picasso, we are no-one, were always no-one, will be forgotten before we are in the ground. We start with it and we are always ready to return to real failure, the bottom of the barrel, the destruction of our talent by alcohol or misery. Over to read a review of His Illegal Self) ![]() Over to read a review of Parrot and Olivier in America) ![]()
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