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Observatory Mansions

By Edward Carey

Observatory Mansions

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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.”
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
370
Release Date:
2002-02-05
Publication Date:
2002-02-05
Publisher:
Knopf
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0375709231
ISBN13:
9780375709234
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
412 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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