CB1-A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear with the

CB1-A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear with the dust jacket endflaps glued to the front and back fixed endpapers plus there are the usual library stamps and label on the top outside paper edges, the front free endpaper, and the title page. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear with the front and back endflaps glued to the fixed endpapers plus there is a library label on the back plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A comic novel about a bowl that comes into the possesion of a young London art appraiser.

New York. 1997. May 1997. Metropolitan Books. 1st American Edition. Small

New York. 1997. May 1997. Metropolitan Books. 1st American Edition. Small Tear Mark On Front Endpaper, Otherwise Very Good in Dustjacket. 080505118x. 223 pages. hardcover. Photograph of bowl by Lars Klove. keywords: Literature England. FROM THE PUBLISHER-We as human beings have an inexorable and almost instinctual need to categorize. Just about everything, from material possessions to intangible ideas, seems to have more order if it is neatly classified and pigeonholed. Wouldn't it be interesting if an inanimate object indexed human beings in a similar manner? The daring and original author Tibor Fischer has offered THE COLLECTOR COLLECTOR, a novel which succeeds in bringing this premise to life, in the form of an ancient bowl, with philosophical wit and a subtle prurience. The bowl-call it the bowl with soul-had its impetus in Fischer's reading of a book on Greek ceramics. He discovered that there was a very complicated system of classification for this pottery and was provoked to re-create that classification from the pottery's own perspective. Our narrator is the bowl, which is approximately 7, 000 years old and has a propensity for astutely filing away human traits and gathering human experiences. Mr. Fischer also gives the bowl, in the grand lineage of James Joyce and William Faulkner, its own cleverly idiosyncratic vocabulary. Our hero's current study is Rosa, a woman hired to authenticate the bowl, and its skills and memory are exemplified in the passage where it classifies Rosa's navel as ‘type sixty-seven of two thousand, two hundred and thirty-four. ' Into the milieu comes a cast of zany characters, most notably Nikki, an uninvited houseguest of Rosa's, who happens to be a kleptomaniac and a nymphomaniac. This peculiar group of humans presents a field day for the bowl as well as a compelling existential examination for the reader. Fischer brilliantly succeeds in overcoming the inherent problems in writing a book from the perspective of a bowl. Indeed, you begin to understand the bowl much in the same way that Rosa develops a metaphysical, unknowing rapport with it. inventory #23787.

First edition. Trade paperback. Fine.

First edition. Trade paperback. Fine.