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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780060831202
ISBN number: 0060831200
Label: Avon A
Manufacturer: Avon A
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: February 19, 2007
Publishing house: Avon A
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 522082
Studio: Avon A
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What do a chamber pot, a famous poet, a family feud, and a long-ago suitor all have in common?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning might have written about the length and breadth of love, but Abby Randolph has given up on all that, preferring to spend her time between her cluttered 'needs work' apartment and an overcrowded antiques mart optimistically named Objects of Desire. Yet Abby can't help but wonder what happened to her earlier passionate self . . .
Then the Antiques Roadshow comes to town, and Abby joins thousands of Boston's hopefuls at the crack of dawn, artifact in hand. But there, among the carousel horses and bedraggled stuffed animals, Abby's rather squalid piece of porcelain gets the star treatment. And from the moment the show airs, everything changes—friendships, her career, love affairs, even the way she views herself and others—as life comes rushing back at Abby Randolph full force.
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This is a fast read, chiefly because you can skip half the text. In fact, I had to skim, otherwise I'd have gotten too frustrated with Abby, the main character, whose personality is nonexistent and inertia more than annoying.
Other parts you can skip: the narrator's endless cataloging of antiques. The silly encounter with a reporter, the whole of which was a hoot, being so badly overwritten. The soppy pity parties in Abby's apartment. The conversation with the make-up artist on Antiques Roadshow. The deposition scene. Anything Lavinia is made to say. The caricatures who pass as men in the novel.
I came away despising Abby, rolling my eyes at most of the characters (except Gus, Mary Agnes and Clyde -- Clyde's "apologies" are the best reading!), and feeling anxious for the chamber pot. It's pretty bad when you're more concerned for the fate of an inanimate object than the main character. But then again, I think the chamber pot is the main character.
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Abby the main character states on page #3: " I'd always liked everybody's leavings, the discarded and dented bits and pieces of other people's lives"....yeah, me too. This novel shows how sometimes those bits and pieces affect us long after the people are gone, and how sometimes we are left to pick up our own bits and pieces.
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Loved this. Similar to Claire Cook but with an antiques/Massachusetts setting. I'm an antiques nut AND a MA resident, formerly of Cambridge, so I'm probably biased. Ms. Medwed writes about a milieu that she really knows, and the narrator's dating disasters were funny. I definitely plan to read more by this author.
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Fast read. Interesting characters. Pretty predictable ending but it was a happy one. Better than watching tv. No violence, foul language or gratuitous sex. Humorous and intelligent.
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Being from the Boston area myself this book truly is a wonderful and accurate ride through the Boston area. Men and women will find something in this because this isn't "chic lit" it's a good story. Abigail works hard to get what she wants and she gets it, no down and out failure to be found. The dialogue is a bit weak at times but the narrative makes up for that. Unlike other books, this story does not end where you think it ends, highly recommended.
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