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by Geoff Nicholson (Author) "Dust collects. It falls on old moquette, on walnut veneer, on corduroy and melamine ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Phoenix; New edition edition (12 Oct 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0575402679
  • ISBN-13: 978-0575402676
  • Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 13 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 926,629 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Steve Geddes is an author who has been commissioned to write a book about collectors. His research leads him to an extraordinary line-up of eccentrics, including the alluring Victoria, who collects lovers. But then the most curious encyclopaedia he's ever seen draws his attention to a novelist it doesn't much rate, and suddenly he's eating, sleeping and breathing the works of Thornton McCain. Before he knows it, Steve finds he's become a collector himself: he can't rest until he's located every book, read every sentence. He should get a life, he knows, but his collector's quest is taking him into the very depths of the acquisitive inferno.

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Educated at Cambridge. Was a bookseller before becoming a full-time writer.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A great surprise!, 11 Oct 2001
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Having never heard of Geoff Nicholson, I was mooching around a bookshop and came upon two of his novels "Hunters & Gatherers" and "The Eroll Flynn Novel". Both caught my attention and I ended up plumping for "Hunters & Gatherers". I absolutely loved it.
The characters are very real and believable - all the threads of the story interlink very cleverly by the end of the novel, although some may find it all a little too convenient.
Part thriller, part comedy, part just a normal guy going about writing a book - the pace never lets up and I found it a complete page turner.
Since reading this have bought and read "Bleeding London" and "Footsucker" and thouroughly enjoyed them - although both of them are a lot darker in their humour.
Having bought/lent/recommended "Hunters & Gatherers" to others - not one person I know who has read it has not thoroughly enjoyed it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars hilarious page-turner, 7 Mar 2000
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This review is from: Hunters & Gatherers (Hardcover)
Though you can say this novel is tricksy; it`s about a writer down on his luck, meeting accidentally another writer, and post-modern; it has insert chapters about hunting and gathering; and you can see bits of Martin Amis and Paul Auster in it...it is also a fantastic page-turner of a read. The characters are well-drawn and fascinating--he is great at his female characters--the plot has twists and turns you cannot believe--and there are set-pieces of comedy which make you laugh out loud. I literally couldn`t put it down and ended up reading it in the bath. Fiercely intelligent (Borges,Nabokov and Bellow seems to be other influences) but also a rollicking adventure as they say ,in the spirit of Tom Sharpe and other very British farceurs. This was my first Nicholson novel and after this I quickly read the rest. Most of his novels would make great films too...visual,action-packed with great characters.
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5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite Nicholson novel so far, 16 July 1998
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Having read 'Footsucker' and 'Volkwagens'; this is my favorite Nicholson novel so far. (The others were good too.) A great cast of eccentrics showcase the search for the nature of collectors and their collections.
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