![]() ![]() This piece of furniture is a rarity, an expert says within hearing of the highboy it really belongs in a museum. It’s a demanding piece of furniture, though, and despite Buffy’s loving care, within a short time the chest begins to cause problems, minor at first, like sticking drawers and wobbling, but eventually major: slamming itself on people’s fingers and scratching the leg of a tot who plays under it. They trade legacies, and at first the highboy seems perfectly content in its new location, continually waxed and polished by its owner, who is appropriately named Buffy. One of the most diverting stories centers upon a ghost that was never precisely alive-an antique chest of drawers-a highboy-inherited by a brother but deeply coveted by his sister. Alison Lurie’s ghosts are thoroughly contemporary, and a few of them violate tradition by not even being dead. Don’t expect visions in tattered rags drifting down ancestral halls or beckoning across wind-swept moors. ![]()
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