Original Color

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Summary: As delightful as a Valentine's Day box of chocolates.
Review: Hugh Kennedy has written a witty send-up of the East Coast art scene. With deft descriptions, he filets posturing art dealers and their calculating clients in this tale of recent college grad Fred's first job with a Boston print dealer. I stayed up late into the night, unable to stop turning the pages that recount Fred's amorous encounters and at times hair-raising adventures. Each chapter is like a fine truffle, its dark smooth chocolate laced with unexpected essences.

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Summary: Wildly Funny, outrageous characters
Review: Original Color is one of the funniest books I've ever read,rarely can a book make you laugh out loud but this one doesfrom beggining to end.

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Summary: The story is a riot Ð with a bonus lesson in antique art.
Review: When brokers of fine art conduct business like purveyors of pork bellies, it has a way of turning expectations upside down. Kennedy's sharp wit makes the fiftysome short chapters of Original Color fly by like a series of funny vignettes you might overhear in a crowded theater. The fast-paced story quickly draws the reader into the life of Fred Layton, a socially ambitious ivy leaguer struggling to find his niche in the world. The hero's preconceptions of WASPy gentility in all matters artistic are thrown out of balance when he gets a job working for The Most Vulgar Man on Earth. Through a suite of outrageous encounters with the charismatic but revolting art dealer, his colleagues and clients, Layton manages to get a grip on his own social and professional integrity