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An edition of The toy collector (2000)

The toy collector

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A tragicomic novel about nostalgia, addiction, and 1970s action figures.

The Toy Collector is a wickedly funny portrait of a young man who sells stolen pharmaceuticals to finance his growing addiction to memorabilia. An orderly at a Times Square hospital, he buys his toys at exorbitant prices, searching the familiar tacky plastic in a perverse effort to avoid adulthood. As the story switches from the make-believe world he creates with his childhood friends-populated by Scrunch-Em, Grow-Em Dinosaurs and toy robots-to the grown-up pleasures of sex, drugs and alcohol, James falls in and out of love, and stumbles through New York City in search of dubious redemption.

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AmazonEncore
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English

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Subjects
Toys, Fiction, Hospitals, Collectors and collecting, Staff, Families, Racially mixed people, Juvenile fiction, History, Family life, Time travel, Employees, Sharecroppers, Race relations, New york (n.y.), fiction, Young women, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Teenage girls, Fiction, general
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Page from a Tennessee Journal
2010, Amazon Encore
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Cover of: The toy collector
The toy collector
2009, AmazonEncore
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: The toy collector
The toy collector
2009, AmazonEncore
in English
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The toy collector
2009, AmazonEncore
in English
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The toy collector
2000, Bloomsbury, Distributed to the press by St. Martin's Press
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
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Seattle, WA
Genre
Fiction

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3557.U4858 T69 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL23712682M
Internet Archive
isbn_9780982555064
ISBN 13
9780982555064, 9780982555057
LCCN
2009035238

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