![]() ![]() ![]() Enter Marlene, a succulently sexual mystery woman with family ties to the mistress of legendary Picasso-like renegade painter Jacques Leibovitz. His mentally challenged brother Hugh, a bearlike innocent who speaks an odd gnomic mixture of tearful nonsense and hair-raisingly imaginative naïf poetry, continues to assert urgent claims on his sibling’s reluctant stewardship. When Butcher, some time after a prison term handed him for an art-related criminal rampage, considers taking up painting again, his semi-good intentions are foiled by two brazenly unconventional characters. ![]() Peter Carey’s bilious protagonist Michael “Butcher” Boone is the intellectual black sheep of a rowdy Australian clan locally famous for its profession of slaughtering and marketing livestock and its predilection for booze-fueled misbehavior. 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. ![]()
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