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01865aam a2200337Mi 4500 001 45749772CAD811ECB187E7395AECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220503065729 008 201209s2021 enk 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1912914360 020 $a 9781912914364 (softcover) 020 $a 9781912914227 020 $a 1912914220 035 $a (OCoLC)1226172386 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d NZAUC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d SILO 082 04 $a 823.92 $2 23 100 1 $a Kennaway, Guy. $e author. 245 14 $a The accidental collector / $c Guy Kennaway. 260 $a London : $b Mensch Publishing, $c 2021. 300 $a 325 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "As the globe's most successful super-dealer, Herman Gertsch spends his charmed life jetting between his galleries in Zurich, London and New York, fawned over by artists, curators, politicians and the uber-rich. As Herman's empire grows, nothing seems to get in his way, until he makes the calamitous decision to open a gallery in a rural English backwater. Here, Herman encounters John "Brother" Burn, a penniless hippy known as the slipperiest man in south Somerset, and therefore the western hemisphere. In the riotous comedy of errors that follows, Kennaway pours mistaken identity, Amazonian tribes, Swiss food, DMT, Arab royalty, and million dollar artworks onto a spin painting of a story about art and life that dazzles." -- $c Provided by publisher. 586 $a Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2021 650 0 $a Art dealers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Artists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Hippies $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Mistaken identity $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Somerset (England) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Humorous fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20220503071310.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=45749772CAD811ECB187E7395AECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search