The afterlife of Emerson Tang
Subtitle: a novel
By: Paula Champa
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780547792781
Subjects: Women archivists; Collectors and collecting; Fiction
Description: A beloved car becomes a piece of us--a way back into our histories or forward into our destinies. For Emerson Tang, the only son of a prominent New England family, that car is a 1954 Beacon. A collector--of art and experience--Emerson keeps his prized possession safely stored away. But when his health begins to fail, his archivist and caretaker is approached by a secretive French painter determined to buy the Beacon at any cost. They discover that the Beacon has been compromised and that its importance reaches far beyond Emerson's own history.