Important Artifacts...

Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Leonore Doolan and Harold Morris... When i say this is the most incredible book, i really, REALLY mean it. I've been giving it to everyone - for Christmas, birthdays, as just a general outpouring of love.... you name it - if i like you, you'll be receiving one soon. Everyone MUST read it. It's a sort of novel-cum-art exhibition set out in the form of an auction catalogue, showing the possessions of a couple, collected over the course of their four year relationship. the first two entry lots are photographs of the protagonists - Leonore, a 26 year old, rather neurotic (as it transpires) food columnist for The New York Times and Harold, 39 year old photojournalist and emotional commitmentphobe. the third lot is an invitation to the Halloween party where they first met, and lot 6 is the scrumpled napkin with Leonore's email address scribbled on it (presumably which she gave to Harold at teh party). the story progresses thus, with the explanations for each lot filling in the gaps where necessary - the visual and written-through walking comfortably hand-in-hand. Collected items include mix tapes they make for one another, books with inscriptions, presents given, notes scribbled on theatre tickets, clothes, junk shop finds, love letters, work emails, photographs, newspaper clippings... it's both heartwarming and heartbreaking, and always inspiring to read as their love first blossoms, then falters, thrives, stumbles, trips, picks itself up - all chronicled through the weird, wonderful, mundane, creative and bizarre ephemera they collect.... . I cried, i laughed, i WANTED their life, i was really glad my life wasn't like theirs. Buy it, honestly, it is so completely brilliant it is almost criminal. plus they are ruining it by making it into a film with Natalie Portman and Brad Pitt which is SACRILEGE.