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Selling Dead People's Things: Inexplicably True Tales, Vintage Fails & Objects of Objectionable Estates

Selling Dead People’s Things: Inexplicably True Tales, Vintage Fails & Objects of Objectionable Estates

By: Duane Scott Cerny

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SELLING DEAD PEOPLE’S THINGS is a wry, behind-the-curtain peek into the world of antiques and their obsessive owners—while still alive and after their passing. An amusing observer of the human condition, author Duane Scott Cerny entertains in illuminating, scary, sad, or frightfully funny resale tales and essays. Whether processing the estate of a hoarding beekeeper, disassembling the retro remains of an infamous haunted hospital, or conducting an impromptu appraisal during a shiva gone disturbingly wrong, every day is a twisted treasure hunt for this twenty-first-century antiques dealer. While digging deep into the basements, attics, and souls of the most interesting collectors imaginable, traveling from one odd house call to the curious next, resale predicaments will confound your every turn. Be careful where you step, watch what you touch, and gird your heart—Antiques Roadshow, this ain’t! (Update: SDPT recently named One of the Top 20 Memoirs of 2019 by The Advocate!)

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  • Duane Scott Cerny

    Duane Scott Cerny is the co-owner (w/partner Jeffrey Nelson) of The Broadway Antique Market... Chicago's oldest and largest multi-dealer vintage destination... Mr. Cerny hosts a bi-weekly vintage show, "Amber's Crazy In The Attic" with internet drag icon, Amber LeMay airing every Sunday (8pm EST) on Facebook and AmberLive.TV Named Top 20 LGBTQ Memoir of the Year, The Advocate... #1 Amazon Bestselling Memoir, Vintage/Antique - USA & Canada Recipient of Gwendolyn Brooks/Poet Laureate of Illinois Poetry Scholarship, Northeastern Illinois University... Read More

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SELLING DEAD PEOPLE’S THINGS is a wry, behind-the-curtain peek into the world of antiques and their obsessive owners—while still alive and after their passing. An amusing observer of the human condition, author Duane Scott Cerny entertains in illuminating, scary, sad, or frightfully funny resale tales and essays. Whether processing the estate of a hoarding beekeeper, disassembling the retro remains of an infamous haunted hospital, or conducting an impromptu appraisal during a shiva gone disturbingly wrong, every day is a twisted treasure hunt for this twenty-first-century antiques dealer. While digging deep into the basements, attics, and souls of the most interesting collectors imaginable, traveling from one odd house call to the curious next, resale predicaments will confound your every turn. Be careful where you step, watch what you touch, and gird your heart—Antiques Roadshow, this ain’t! (Update: SDPT recently named One of the Top 20 Memoirs of 2019 by The Advocate!)

Reviews

  • Steering like a Ouija planchette, Selling Dead People’s Things takes us across personal artifacts of lives passed on, rousing stories and spirits revealing often that life is the greater mystery than death.

    MICHAEL CARBONARO, Creator/Executive Producer of The Carbonaro Effect on TruTV
  • I’ve always believed that your home should feel layered, like it has been assembled over time. In my own home and in the interiors my firm and I design, there is not one single room that doesn’t include vintage. I’ve shopped Duane’s store for years and sourced some of my best vintage finds there. This book is a beautiful collection of all his years of experience and a twenty-five-year love affair with design.

    NATE BERKUS, Interior Designer and Author

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