A tragicomic novel about nostalgia, addiction, and 1970s action figures.
"The Toy Collector "is a wickedly funny portrait of a young man who sells stolen pharmaceuticals to finance his growing addiction to memorabilia. An orderly at a Times Square hospital, he buys his toys at exorbitant prices, searching the familiar tacky plastic in a perverse effort to avoid adulthood. As the story switches from the make-believe world he creates with his childhood friends-populated by Scrunch-Em, Grow-Em Dinosaurs and toy robots-to the grown-up pleasures of sex, drugs and alcohol, James falls in and out of love, and stumbles through New York City in search of dubious redemption.
- ISBN10 1582341494
- ISBN13 9781582341491
- Publish Date 1 July 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 December 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format Paperback
- Pages 276
- Language English