The Toy Collector

by James Gunn

Other authors: Aurora Echevarria

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In this wickedly funny novel, a young orderly at a Times Square hospital sells stolen pharmaceuticals to finance his growing addiction to memorabilia. As the story switches from the make-believe world he created with his childhood friends to the grownup pleasures of sex, drugs and alcohol, he falls in and out of love, and stumbles through New York City in search of dubious redemption.… (more)

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Quirky and edgy! I loved it. If any of you have an addiction for any memorabilia (I am talking to you EBAYers), you will laugh out loud at this book! (

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In this wickedly funny novel, a young orderly at a Times Square hospital sells stolen pharmaceuticals to finance his growing addiction to memorabilia. As the story switches from the make-believe world he created with his childhood friends to the grownup pleasures of sex, drugs and alcohol, he falls in and out of love, and stumbles through New York City in search of dubious redemption.

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