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Thus collectors must be interesting, no? No, it turns out, in Geoff Nicholson's cheerfully loopy comic novel Hunters & Gatherers (Overlook; 215 pages). Nicholson's hero, a feckless would-be writer named Steve Geddes, has unwisely taken a publisher's advance to produce a book on collectors. But the collector collector finds that his subjects, though daft, are stunningly boring. An obsessed gatherer of sounds has recorded utter silence in Namibia, the Sahara and the Australian outback. One human rodent, who promises to show Geddes the world's largest beer-can collection, leads him to a completely empty room. Curses...
Pfeiffer, most recently seen in "Wolf" withJack Nicholson and "The Age of Innocence" withDaniel Day-Lewis, is well-known for a variety ofsultry movie roles. Her performances as a loungesinger in "The Fabulous Baker Boys," Catwoman in"Batman," and a fallen prude in "DangerousLiaisons" have long eclipsed her early work inmovies such as the musical "Grease...
Thus collectors must be interesting, no? No, it turns out, in Geoff Nicholson's cheerfully loopy comic novel Hunters & Gatherers (Overlook; 215 pages; $21.95). Nicholson's hero, a feckless would-be writer named Steve Geddes, has unwisely taken a publisher's advance to produce a book on collectors. But the collector collector finds that his subjects, though daft, are stunningly boring. An obsessed gatherer of sounds has recorded utter silence in Namibia, the Sahara and the Australian Outback. One human rodent, who promises to show Geddes the world's largest beer-can collection, leads him to a completely empty room...
Quite understandably, Geddes is becalmed with writer's block. Becalmed with impotence too, though the beautiful Victoria, a collector of lovers, works tirelessly to cure him. Nicholson's tale is not so much a novel as a collection of loosely related fiction riffs, but it does not suffer at all from its lack of connective tissue. His imaginings are always peculiar, frequently droll, and on several occasions funny, about car freaks, salesmen, book critics, sex and the alarming sort who acquire the complete works of novelists. Worth collecting; first editions available...
...particularly strong start. After the 35-pound weight throw, in which junior Stephen McCauley was outdistanced by two feet, the Crimson ripped off first places in five straight events. The troika of freshman Josh Nicholson (6'4"), junior Terrence Mann (6'2") and senior Joseph Ghartey (6'2") combined for a high jump sweep and five points in the scorebook...