Bedeutende Objekte Und Persönliche Besitzstücke Aus Der Sammlung Von Lenore Doolan Und Harold Morris, Darunter Bücher, Mode Und Schmuck (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
This book is such a unique and imaginative format. It documents the entire relationship of the fictional Lenore and Harold from their first meeting through to their breakup. The whole story is told as an auction catalog of all the possessions related to their love story. There are photographs and postcards, clothes and books, knick-knacks and letters. I have never read anything like it! I felt a bit like a voyeur! At first it is all very sweet and romantic but then trouble starts to brew between them and by the end they have grown apart. I don't think that is a spoiler as obviously all these items are for sale in the fictional auction so they must have wanted to get rid of everything they acquired together. If you are looking for something completely different check this one out! How Shapton got the idea of collecting and photographing bric-a-brac and then assembling it cleverly into a novel is mental and at the same time simply brilliant. The book works as a story of a beginning, a middle and an end of a relationship and it would be wrong to assume that just because pictures make up the bulk of its narrative tissue the discourse falls outside the literary domain. Admittedly, no brainy quotes will easily transpire from this one but as an experiment in genre mixing it is effective on all relevant levels: it incites interest, stirs emotions and awakens empathy with the main characters. Which is more than can be said about many a conventionally written story of love and loss.
What do You think about Bedeutende Objekte Und Persönliche Besitzstücke Aus Der Sammlung Von Lenore Doolan Und Harold Morris, Darunter Bücher, Mode Und Schmuck (2010)?
Anna is right. I basically only read books with pictures these days.
—alen
Read it earlier this year and forgot to add.
—Kristine
