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Loading... The Collector Collector: A Novel (1997)by Tibor Fischer
![]() None No current Talk conversations about this book. ![]() ![]() This was one of those intriguing books that failed to intrigue me. I gave up on it after a while, because it felt like the absurdity just wasn't going to sustain my interest. Sometimes absurdity is enough, but generally I need at least one other thing to hang my interest on. Characters whose problems I care about tend to do it, but I don't recall being enticed that way. Still, Fischer seems well regarded, so I'm fine putting the failure down to me or to the circumstances of my reading. However, I doubt that will be enough, given all there is to read, for me to give the author another try. (Not that I don't welcome some encouragement to the contrary.) no reviews | add a review
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Now in Paperback, The Collector Collector takes a conventional boy-meets-girl story and turns it into a brilliant comic romp. The hero of Tibor Fischer's tale is an antique bowl that comes into the possession of a lovelorn, young London art appraiser named Rosa. Rosa's bowl is no ordinary piece of clay, however: it is a ceramic sage, an urn of uncommon erudition that has witnessed all of history's major convulsions -- revolutions, famines, massacres, wars -- and has survived more than four hundred breakages and three thousand thefts.By investing his bowl with soul, Fischer give us a hilarious, mantel-eye view of depravity and redemption, sex and lust, burglary and archaeology. "A writer gifted with a formidable imagination" (The Washington Post Book World), Fischer takes us on a thrilling ride from the primitive societies of prehistory to the equally primitive society of present-day London. No library descriptions found. |
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:![]()
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