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From the Colletion of Leonore Doolan and Harold Morris, including books, street fashion and jewelry -by Leanne Shapton -
Saturday 14 Ferbruary 2009, New York - Strachan & Quinn Auctioneers - Bloomsbury -129pp, black and white photographs - Paperback
This book tells the story of a hopeful young New York couple and their four-year relationship almost completely through their things, many of which end up unceremoniously, and improbably, under the gavel: books, pajamas, bedside lamps, a stuffed squirrel, an astrakhan coat, the winning half of a wishbone and lots of notes, inscriptions and e-mail messages that start out giddy and become slowly more complicated, angry and sorrowful.
If there were a real failed-relationship auction house named Strachan & Quinn, where the sale is supposed to take place on Valentines Day, the event might actually draw a modest crowd, if only because the fictional Hal Morris, a globe-trotting photographer in his early 40s, and Lenore Doolan, who is presented as a late-20s cake columnist for The Timess Dining section, are generally more meticulous than conspicuous in their consumption. Randy Kennedy, The New York Times
