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LEADER: 01886fam a2200325 a 4500
001 1983127
005 20220609042943.0
008 960924s1997 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 96044330
020 $a080505118X (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)84440239
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm84440239
035 $9AMK2062CU
035 $a(NNC)1983127
035 $a1983127
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dNNC$dOrLoB-B
050 00 $aPR6056.I772$bC6 1997
082 00 $a823/.914$220
100 1 $aFischer, Tibor,$d1959-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93110575
245 14 $aThe collector collector /$ca novel by Tibor Fischer.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bHenry Holt and Co.,$c1997.
263 $a9705
300 $a221 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 $aThe hero of Fischer's tale is a bowl that comes into the possession of a young, lovelorn 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.
520 8 $aEquipped with an unerring memory and the ability to impart wisdom to its hapless custodian, the bowl observes and narrates the invasion and gradual colonization of Rosa's tiny apartment by an uninvited houseguest: the sex-addicted kleptomaniac Nikki.
520 8 $aInhabiting the fringes of Fischer's kinky, dystopic universe are Tabitha, a newspaper sob-sister whom Rosa kidnaps and confines in a backyard well, demanding romantic advice in lieu of ransom, and the indestructible Lump, a fierce but affectionate Amazon whose sole mission is to rescue Nikki from her many libidinous admirers.
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR6056.I772$iC6 1997