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Michael Rips The Golden Flea (Hardback)
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- Book Title
- The Golden Flea
- Publication Name
- The Golden Flea
- Title
- The Golden Flea
- Subtitle
- A Story of Obsession and Collecting
- Format
- Hardback
- ISBN-10
- 132400407X
- EAN
- 9781324004073
- ISBN
- 9781324004073
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Genre
- Arts & Photography
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, General, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa)
- Release Year
- 2020
- Release Date
- 24/04/2020
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 218mm
- Item Length
- 147mm
- Item Width
- 23mm
- Item Weight
- 334g
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For decades, the Chelsea Flea Market on the west side of Manhattan drew shoppers seeking treasures in booths crammed with vintage dresses, ancient swords, glass eyeballs, Afghan rugs, West African fetish dolls, Old Master paintings, and more. In The Golden Flea , acclaimed writer Michael Rips ("a magical storyteller"-- USA Today) recounts his obsession with this charmed world. Writing with a beguiling style that has won praise from Joan Didion and Susan Orlean, Rips introduces the Flea's lovable, oddball vendors, including the Haberdasher, who only sells to those he deems worthy; the Art Dealer, whose obscure paintings often go for enormous sums; the Troubadour, who sings to attract customers; as well pickers and collectors of every stripe. As Rips' passion for collecting grows, and the Flea's last days loom, he undertakes a quest to prove the provenance of a mysterious painting that might just be the one .
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
132400407x
ISBN-13
9781324004073
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6038855416
Product Key Features
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, General, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa)
Dimensions
Item Length
8.6in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
11.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Book Title
Golden Flea : a Story of Obsession and Collecting
Lc Classification Number
Hf5482.15.R57 2020
Reviews
[Rips] captured the singular vocational pull of the collector, and in doing so...show[s] us the whimsical and strange roots that run deep beneath stuff., Michael Rips's surreal style is perfectly suited to the wondrous world of flea markets. The Golden Flea delights with portraits of people on the margins of city life, the eccentric and easy-to-ignore pickers, collectors, vendors, and others obsessed with laying claim to a piece of the past. In describing his own fortunes and follies in that world, Rips captures the best and worst of what it means to collect., [Rips] has humanity, humor and the gift of a limpid, agile, unpretentious prose style...A captivating portrait., Discovering the flea through Rips's experience is magnificent, but the human influence on the transactions...give it true beauty., Michael Rips writes with a unique combination of sly humor, close observation, and sympathy. He takes the philosopher's long view, is impressively open, and treasures all manner of people and experiences. He finds gold in stories that might otherwise go unremarked. This book is exemplary in its inclusiveness, humanity, and wit., I love this book so much I decided to mark my favorite bits with asterisks and ended up with something that looked like the Milky Way galaxy., An extraordinary portrait of a New York filled with unlikely treasures, human and material. Michael Rips is a magician of seeing, and only he could have come up with this enchanted construction.
Copyright Date
2020
Format
Hardcover
Lccn
2019-044492
Dewey Decimal
381.192097471
Intended Audience
Trade
Publication Year
2020
Dewey Edition
23
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Art, Antiques & Collectibles
Number of Pages
224 Pages
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