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...Theft Thwarted...
Back in the Senate, Barrios told supporters, the former Adams House resident will focus on “cracking down on domestic violence and identity theft, addressing bullying and violence in schools, and advancing progressive priorities on a variety of other issues...
...novel, Theft: A Love Story (Knopf; 269 pages), Carey shifts his magpie gaze to an art world overflowing with unscrupulous dealers, avaricious collectors and modernist forgeries, but his question is essentially the same. Ponders has-been Australian artist Michael Boone: "How can you know how much to pay when you have no bloody idea of what it's worth?" As Boone hails from Bacchus Marsh, Carey's birthplace, and finds himself at art's '80s epicenter in Manhattan, where the novelist has lived for nearly two decades, the question of creative worth would seem to resonate strongly with the Booker...
...Theft should sweep Carey's writerly anxieties away. After the chaotic excesses of My Life as a Fake, his new narrative grabs you by the throat and proceeds with a comic urgency not seen since True History of the Kelly Gang. Artist Boone is not dissimilar from that novel's vociferous antihero. But instead of the colonial authorities, he's up against an ex-wife (his unnamed "alimony whore") and an art-world ?lite (including "the idiots at Sotheby's") intent on stripping him of all worldly assets and self-esteem...
Assuming he went as the INS promised, he didn't stay long. In September that year, he was arrested and convicted of theft and shoplifting in Wenatchee, Wash., under the name Manuel Martinez. Two months later, he was convicted of felony sales of marijuana and hashish in Los Angeles and sent to jail for 60 days. In March 1988 he was arrested in Los Angeles, once for robbery, once for possession of a controlled substance. Another possession arrest followed in April. In August he was arrested in Los Angeles for robbery. In December he was sent to prison in California...