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Objects of Our Affection

Objects of Our Affection


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After their mother's death, Lisa Tracy and her sister, Jeanne, are left to contend with several households' worth of furniture and memorabilia, much of it accumulated during theirfamily's many decades of military service in far-flung outposts from the American frontier to the World War Two-era Pacific. In this engaging and deeply moving book, Tracy chronicles the wondrousinterior life of those possessions and discovers that the roots of our passion for acquisition often lie not in shallow materialism but in our desire to possess the most treasured commodity of all: a connection to thepast. What starts as an exercise in information gathering designed to boost the estate's resale value at auction evolves into a quest that takes Lisa Tracy from her New Jersey home to thePhilippines and, ultimately, back to the town where she grew up. These travels open her eyes to a rich family history characterized by duty, hardship, honor, and devotion--qualities embodied in the very items sheintends to sell. Here is an inventory unlike any other: silver gewgaws, dueling pistols that once belonged to Aaron Burr (no, not those" "pistols), a stately storage chest from BoxerRebellion-era China, providentially recovered family documents, even a chair in which George Washington may or may not have sat--each piece cherished and passed down to Lisa's generation as anemblem of who her forebears were, what they had done, and where they had been. Each is cataloged here with all the richness and intimacy that only a family member could bring to theendeavor. "Even as we know we should be winnowing, we're wallowing," observes Lisa Tracy in one of her characteristically trenchant observations about America'sabiding obsession with "stuff." A paean to the pack rat in us all, Objects of Our Affection offers an offbeat and intriguing mix of cultural anthropology, Antiques Roadshow Americana, and military history and lore, as well as a thoughtful meditation on the emotional resonance of objects--what they mean and the oh-so-fascinating stories theytell. "From the Hardcover edition."


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  • ISBN-13: 9780553907346
  • Publisher: Bantam
  • Publisher Imprint: Bantam
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0553907344
  • Publisher Date: 23 Mar 2010
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 250


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