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THE TOY COLLECTORBy James GunnBLOOMSBURYCopyright © 2000 James Gunn. All rights reserved.ISBN: 1-58234-081-1Chapter One The Greatest Toy in the World1 We acquire the toyHis real name was Trevor Forrester, but the kids in thesubdivision called him Monster because he was mean andhe was ugly and he was retarded. `You ought to be able tomake that brat's head spin in circles, smart as you are,' myfather would say to my brother and me. But IQs didn'thelp much when Monster pushed down on your chest andsqueezed your scrotum until you screamed. At night, we'dput ice packs between our legs to stop the swelling. Wewouldn't tell our mom, didn't want her poking aroundour private stuff. The old man we didn't tell much ofanything.A good thing about Monster was he was choosy. Hisfather was a proctologist, he made a lot of money, andevery year at Christmas he'd buy his kid too many gifts.Monster would pick one or two toys of which he was fondand ignore the rest. He loved the Six Million Dollar Manaction figure, whom he called Steve and treated as a sort offriend. There was a funny story about how one day Mr.Forrester was drunk on the couch and Monster wasrunning Steve over his sl

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Author

Gunn, James, Francine Thomas Howard

Publisher

Bloomsbury : Distributed to the Press by St. Martin's Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781582340814

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humor

Rating

3.88 / 5 (95 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13