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What do a chamber pot, a famous poet, a family feud, and a long-ago suitor all have in common? Elizabeth Barrett Browning might have written about the length and breadth of love, but Abby Randolph has given up on all that, preferring to spend her time between her cluttered "needs work"... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Abby -Abigail Elizabeth Randolph: Collectibles dealer with a booth, 4 credits shy of graduating from Harvard where her father held the Epworth Chair in Humanities. Lives a distracted, depressed life of failures, with a history of never finishing anything.
- R. Grffen Randolph: Held the Epworth Chair in Humanities at Harvard until his wife ran away with another professor's wife. Remarried to a young thing with three new sons
- Emily Granby Randolph: Abby's mother, who encouraged her art minded daughter and took her to her first flea markets and auctions. Ex-wife of R. Griffen Randolph. At 54 ran off with Henrietta Potter, her college roommate, later wife of Bickford Potter, Harvard economist, near Nobel lauteate
- Henrietta Potter: wife of Bickford Potter, Harvard economist, near Nobel lauteate. Mother of Ned and Lavinia. College roommate and later companion of Emily Randolph
- Ned - Edward Bickford Potter: childhood backdoor neighbor, taught Abby to ride her bike. Lover who used all her closest secrets and included them in a novel with their mothers' affair, breaking her heart.
- Lavina Potter-Templeton: Younger sister of Ned, bossy, greedy, self-centered, grasping. Well organized divorcée.
- Clyde: Name-dropping flea market scrounger, ex-boyfriend of Abby who dumped her for a posh decorator
- Gus Robideau: A Québécois with the booth next to Abby's. He is successful with endless antique dogs, cats, cherubs. He has an eye for what is really valuable, and sends Abby off to the Antiques Roadshow with her mother's chamber pot.
- Mary Agnes Finch: Harvard classmate of Abby's, Yale Law, now very successfull - and Abby's lawyer over the chamber pot.
- Todd Tucker: Journalist with Boston Globe - writing a follow-up story to Antiques Roadshow
- Lavinia Potter: Add a description of this character.
- Mrs. Thayer
- Jim Snodgrass
- Kiki
- Abigail Randolph
- Kerry
- Chauncey
- Doris
- Robert
- Tanya
- Carol
- Fred
First Sentence edit
It's midafternoon on a Monday, too quiet here at Objects of Desire.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Mameve Medwed (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 0060831197
Page Count: 272
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 0060831197
Page Count: 272
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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