Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
Published 2006 · 271 pages · 67,750 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Romance
How hard is Theft: A Love Story to read?
Theft: A Love Story scores 59 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 62 out of 100
- Art world vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 62 out of 100
- Carey prose.
- Abstraction: 62 out of 100
- Art, authenticity, love.
- Information density: 60 out of 100
- Australian art scene.
- Narrative indirection: 60 out of 100
- Dual narrators.
- Symbolic density: 58 out of 100
- Art, theft.
- Ironic distance: 58 out of 100
- Comic elements.
- Resolution withholding: 55 out of 100
- Mystery resolved.
- Structural complexity: 58 out of 100
- Dual perspectives.
How Theft: A Love Story is regarded
Theft: A Love Story holds a literary regard score of 60 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.