The toy collector
By: James Gunn.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury; Distributed to the press by St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Toys -- Collectors and collecting -- Fiction; Hospitals -- Staff -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The Toy Collector is a funny portrait of a young man who sells stolen pharmaceuticals to finance his growing addiction to memorabilia. An orderly at a Times Square hospital, James Gunn buys his toys at exorbitant prices, searching the familiar tacky plastic for his childhood dreams 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."--BOOK JACKET.