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Observatory Mansions Tapa blanda - 2002
de Edward Carey
In this stunning debut novel, English playwright Edward Carey crafts a modern Gothic tale around the crumbling "Observatory Mansions" and its reclusive, eccentric tenants. Reminiscent of Beckett, Ionesco, and Stephen Millhauser, "Observatory Mansions" is the British literary sensation that John Fowles called "easily the most brilliant fiction I've read this year." Illustrations.
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"Easily the most brilliant fiction I've seen this year -- it proves the potential brilliance of the novel form."-- John Fowles, author of The MagusObservatory Mansions, once the Orme family's magnificent ancestral home set on beautiful grounds, is now a crumbling apartment block stranded on a traffic island, peopled with eccentrics.Thirty-seven-year-old Francis Orme lives in Observatory Mansions with his peculiar parents and a collection of misfits. By day he is a street performer, earning money as "a statue of whiteness" in the park, wearing white gloves to ensure that his skin never touches anything. He steals items for his museum of significant objects (996 in all), not for their monetary value but because they have been loved, often bringing grief to their erstwhile owners. His bedridden mother, Alice, who has created for herself an alternative time frame called "fiction," and his father, Francis, are among the occupants set apart from the rest of the busy city by their histories, their memories, and their relationships with the other seven inhabitants of the flats.Each of the house dwellers has his or her own story, as seen through Francis's eyes, and the careful routine and harmony of the house are shaken when along comes a new resident, the half-blind, vulnerable Anna Tap. She is sympathetic and resourceful, and slowly the desperately lonely residents begin to open up their long-closed hearts. As the delicate balance of Observatory Mansions begins to shift, Francis finds himself having to protect the secrets of his past and the sanctity of his collection, while growing emotionally closer to Anna.Hailed as no less than a tour de force, Observatory Mansions is a debut novel of immense originality--a strangely haunting landscape occupied by compelling and unforgettable characters.From the Hardcover edition.
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I wore white gloves.
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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."
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."
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- Título Observatory Mansions
- Autor Edward Carey
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición Reprint
- Páginas 370
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Knopf Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 2002-02-05
- ISBN 9780375709234 / 0375709231
- Peso 0.73 libras (0.33 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.04 x 5.24 x 0.74 pulgadas (20.42 x 13.31 x 1.88 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- Booksense '76 Mar/Apr 2002, 03/01/2002, Page 1
- Entertainment Weekly, 03/08/2002, Page 67
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