| Author: | Peter Carey | ISBN: | 9780307265272 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | May 9, 2006 |
| Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
| Author: | Peter Carey |
| ISBN: | 9780307265272 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | May 9, 2006 |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
