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| ISBN: | 0446573647 (ISBN13: 9780446573641) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | New York City, New York(United States) |
Steve Martin
Hardcover | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 3.69 | 60755 Users | 3062 Reviews
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Lacey Yeager is young, captivating, and ambitious enough to take the NYC art world by storm. Groomed at Sotheby's and hungry to keep climbing the social and career ladders put before her, Lacey charms men and women, old and young, rich and even richer with her magnetic charisma and liveliness. Her ascension to the highest tiers of the city parallel the soaring heights--and, at times, the dark lows--of the art world and the country from the late 1990s through today.
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| Title | : | An Object of Beauty |
| Author | : | Steve Martin |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | November 23rd 2010 by Grand Central Publishing |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Art. Contemporary. Novels. Audiobook. New York. Adult Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.69 From 60755 Users | 3062 ReviewsCommentary Out Of Books An Object of Beauty
This is a tale which renders a fascinating portrait of the inside world of art dealers in New York City in the 90s as shown through the trajectory of young Lacey as she starts as a poorly paid intern at Sothebys auction house and works her way up to running her own gallery. I found the read fun in the same way as The Devil Wears Prada was for the fashion industry. I liked the collision and collusion of art as a creative wonder and art as a business. Along the way we get images and some of theAt the Academy Awards they always introduce the winners as multi-talented. Normally that means they can walk and chew gum at the same time. But in the case of Steve Martin, author of An Object of Beauty, an Emmy, Grammys, a very successful career as a comedian and actor, and two excellent books of fiction, not to mention a stageplay, screenplays, a childrens book, a comedy collection, and pieces for the New Yorker and the New York Times, qualify him as a 21st century Renaissance man.My friend
I picked this audiobook up on a whim, and really, really ended up really enjoying it. In my opinion, the writing was really top-notch. The language was clever and witty and lean. The story is charming and insightful, and subtle. It's character-focused, without being the sort of self-indulgent literary thing that I really dislike. The story itself centers around several characters who work in the New York art world. I don't know anything about art, what's more, I don't really *care* about art.
This third novel by comedian and actor Steve Martin boasts a great opening line, which I found impossible to resist:I am tired, so very tired of thinking about Lacey Yeager, yet I worry that unless I write her story down, and see it bound and tidy on my bookshelf, I will be unable to ever write about anything else.The narrator is Daniel, an art writer in 1990s New York. However, he is a largely featureless figure, with his narrative (as the above suggests) being almost entirely devoted to his
About three-quarters of the way through this, I decided this book reminded me of something. The question of what it was started to bother me more than actual questions arising from the novel. At first, I thought it must be its resemblance to other novels written by smart men about fascinating, terrifying women they cannot either understand or, despite numerous injuries, quite break free of. The women where one can never completely decide if they are a heroine given their time and milieu, if they
I would give this 2.5 stars if possible but rounded up to three. I came soooo close to abandoning this one. For the first half I felt like there wasn't much plot. It's a story about a woman living in NYC involved in the business of buying and selling art. She is not a likeable person. Very narcissistic. In the second half the story picked up a bit. Very interesting learning about the art world (there are some pictures of the artwork mentioned in the story which was nice). It ended up being not
I liked Steve Martin's Shopgirl a lot, and I'm also into art, so I thought I'd enjoy this book more. The best thing about it is that Steve Martin knows how to write about art; his descriptions of the many paintings in this book are readable and beautiful, better than the stuff you'll get from major art critics any day. Martin writes about the art world from the 90s to the present with clarity and authority.But: I wish Martin's characters here were as interesting as his art musings.
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