Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris

Name: Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris
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By Leanne Shapton

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Summary

Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris by Leanne Shapton is a unique novel presented as an auction catalogue. It tells the story of the relationship between Lenore and Harold through their personal items. The book provides a poignant and artistic exploration of their love and separation, with items and notes revealing the intricacies of their lives together.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate unique storytelling formats, as it unfolds through an auction catalogue detailing the relationship between two people. Fans of artful narratives and explorations of love and breakups will find this fictional collection of photographs and objects fascinating and engaging.

Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris

A unique and utterly charming book that is at once a novel and a work of art.

The film rights to Important Artifacts have been bought by Paramount Pictures and will be made into a feature film starring Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman. Publication will be marked with great publicity across the national press and glossy magazines; an online treasure trove will showcase some of the artifacts Unique in style and timeless in appeal, Important Artifacts charts a passionate love affair from the first sparks to the final flares through an auction catalogue of the couple's personal effects

Description

Lenore Doolan, a food writer for the New York Times, meets Harold Morris, a photographer, at a Halloween party in 2002. He is dressed as Harry Houdini.

In Leanne Shapton's marvellously inventive and invented auction catalogue, the 325 lots up for auction are what remain from the relationship between Lenore and Harold (who aren't real people, but might as well be). Through photographs of the couple's personal effects—the usual auction items (jewellery, fine art, and rare furniture) and the seemingly worthless (pyjamas, Post-it notes, worn paperbacks)—the story of a failed love affair vividly and cleverly emerges.

From first meeting to final separation, the progress and rituals of intimacy are revealed through the couple's accumulated relics and memorabilia. And a love story, in all its tenderness and struggle, emerges from the evidence that has been left behind, laid out for us to appraise and appreciate.

In Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Leanne Shapton invites us to contemplate what is truly valuable, and to consider the art we make of our private lives.

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Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris by Leanne Shapton is praised for its unique narrative style, using photographs and auction listings to tell the story of a relationship's breakdown. Critics appreciate its originality and the way it captures the nuances of romantic connections. It's described as a perfect gift and a word-of-mouth sensation.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781408804728

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 November 2009

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 184.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 144

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About the Author

Leanne Shapton is an illustrator, writer and publisher who was born in Toronto and now lives in New York. She is the art director of the New York Times op-ed page and co-founder of J&L Books, a nonprofit publishing company specializing in new photography, art and fiction. She is the author of Was She Pretty?