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Important Artifacts By Leanne ShaptonFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 129 pages, $18 Have you ever rearranged your stuff before visitors arrived? Exchanged the lowbrow books on the night table for better ones, reconsidered the bibelots, removed some of the items from the medicine cabinet, and put out better kitchen towels? Knowing full well the detecting habits of dinner guests, and the clues to be found in our things? Leanne Shaptons new booka novelty more than a noveltrades on such powers. Its a love story (or anyway an account of a four-year relationship) cast as an auction catalog of a contemporary couples possessions, joint and separate. A novel notion, yes. But has there ever been a pair of protagonists more annoying than Lenore and Hal, re...(read more)
... Important Artifacts By Leanne ShaptonFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 129 pages, $18 Have you ever rearranged your stuff before visitors arrived? Exchanged the lowbrow books on the night table for better ones, reconsidered the bibelots, removed some of the ...
... Ms. Shapton is the art director of the Op-Ed page of The New York Times. I SHOWED Important Artifacts to two actual antique dealers, whose collection of catalogs dates back some 200 years. This isnt a book; its an auction catalog, said the younger ...
... and a framed postcard of an Edward Weston nude. Also on that page: two first editions, a Faber and Faber Auden, and a Hogarth Press Woolf, from Lenore to Hal, and vice versa. Unbelievablyhow dopey are these people supposed to be, anyway?theyve wri ...
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