{"product_id":"carey-edward-observatory-mansions-9780375709234","title":"Observatory Mansions","description":"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.”","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53378597716310,"sku":"9780375709234-G","price":2.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/carey-edward-observatory-mansions-9780375709234","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}