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Observatory Mansions: a Novel
Edward Carey
Observatory Mansions: a Novel
Edward Carey
Once the Orme family?s magnificent ancestral estate, Observatory Mansions is now a crumbling apartment complex, home to an eccentric group of misfits. One of them is Francis Orme, who earns his livelihood as a living statue. When not practicing ?inner and outer stillness,? Francis steals the cherished possessions of others to add to his private museum. The other tenants are equally as odd: his mother and father, who haven?t interacted in years; a man who continually sweats and cries; a recluse who prefers television to reality; and a woman who behaves like a dog. When Anna Tapp arrives among them she stirs their souls, bringing long forgotten memories to the surface?and arousing fears that this new resident intends to provoke a metamorphosis.
Reminiscent of Beckett, Ionesco, and Millhauser but startlingly original, Observatory Mansions is also unexpectedly beguiling. Upon its publication in England, it was a literary sensation, and John Fowles called it ?easily the most brilliant fiction I?ve seen this year.?
Media | Książki Paperback Book (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem) |
Wydane | 5 lutego 2002 |
ISBN13 | 9780375709234 |
Wydawcy | Vintage |
Strony | 356 |
Wymiary | 130 × 200 × 20 mm · 331 g |
Język | English |
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