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An Object of Beauty

Steve Martin

Hardcover | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 3.69 | 60755 Users | 3062 Reviews

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Title	:	An Object of Beauty
Author	:	Steve Martin
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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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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ISBN:	0446573647 (ISBN13: 9780446573641)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	New York City, New York(United States)

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Picked this up at my library where they had 'blind date with a book' by the front door. Each one had the first lines of the book printed on the card. ---The opening paragraph for this one caught my eye right away: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." Our narrator Daniel is a 'friend' of Lacey's and the story is told from his point of

As a giant Steve Martin fan, and one who loved his novels "Shopgirl" and "The Pleasure of My Company," I found his newest novel absolutely disappointing.Taking place in the stuffy New York City world of fine art collecting and dealing, "An Object of Beauty" follows Lacey Yeager through her nearly two-decade career in Manhattan. The result is rather dull. While Martin's writing is well done, the story itself is forgettable in just about every way. The story has more to do with how much art is

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 the

I savored this book. Im not going to say that it was the best damn book I have ever read but that it did what a story is supposed to do, entertain. I purposely read it slow because of the authors voice. I wanted the words to flow around in my mind a little longer than usual, so I could recreate the art it was painting right before my eyes. I found myself staring longingly at the few pictures of different art pieces contained within its pages, even stopping to lookup whatever pieces that were



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

It was fun to read about the contemporary art market in NYC in the last art bubble, and Martin is great in his dead-on descriptions of people, organizations, deal-making, gallery openings, and the contemporary art world in general. But this didn't outweigh the fact that I couldn't stand the 'voice' of the narrator. It is never really clear why he knows all the things he knows, and it was annoying that Martin chose to use the narrator to key readers into the fact that Martin knows this world,