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An Object of Beauty

by Steve Martin

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An Object of Beauty

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Sotheby's (New York, New York, USA)

Chelsea, New York, New York, USA

The Carlyle (New York, New York, USA)

St. Petersburg, Russia

Manhattan, New York, New York, USA

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September 11 Attacks

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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.

Quotations

"I think Lacey is the kind of person who will always be okay."

When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized. Alone she was self-contained, her tightly spinning magnetic energy oscillating around her. When in company, she had invisible tethers to everyone in the room: as they moved away, she pulled them in.

Was every transgression capable of being so well hid? It suggested that one could connect the dots between any two people in any room and perhaps stumble onto an unknown relationship.

"Do you know we tape all our auctions?"

When Lacey began these computations, her toe crossed ground from which it is difficult to return: she started converting objects of beauty into objects of value.

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Oates, Joyce Carol

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Fiction and Literature

General Fiction

Melvil Decimal System (DDC)

813.54Literature › American literature in English › American fiction in English › 1900-1999 › 1945-1999

LC Classification

PS3563.A7293Language and Literature › American literature › American literature › Individual authors › 1961-

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