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OBSERVATORY MANSIONS
de EDWARD CAREY
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Very Good /No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0330391151
- ISBN 13
- 9780330391153
- Librería
-
THETFORD, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
LONDON: PICADOR. Novel. Slight wear on cover edges. Prior owner inscription on dedication page. Slight marking on some page edges. Otherwise clean pages. Strong binding. . Very Good. Trade Paperback. First Paperback Edition. 2000.
Sinopsis
"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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Detalles
- Librería
- TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 003555
- Título
- OBSERVATORY MANSIONS
- Autor
- EDWARD CAREY
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Trade Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket as Issued
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Paperback Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0330391151
- ISBN 13
- 9780330391153
- Editorial
- PICADOR
- Lugar de publicación
- LONDON
- Fecha de publicación
- 2000
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Mainstream Fiction;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Términos de venta
TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
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Sobre el vendedor
TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
THETFORD, Norfolk
Sobre TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS
I am a bookseller of predominantly used(second hand) books. I specialise in Science Fiction, Fantasy, Graphic Novels, British and American comics, TV and Film books and magazines. I also sell other varieties of fiction and non-fiction. Including historical novels, poetry, history books, native american history, new age, philosophy, motivational books, classics.
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