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Metropolitan Stories: A Novel
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Hidden behind the Picassos and Vermeers, the Temple of Dendur and the American Wing, exists another world: the hallways and offices, conservation studios, storerooms, and cafeteria that are home to the museums devoted and peculiar staff of 2,200 people along with a few ghosts.
A surreal love letter to this private side of The Met, 'Metropolitan Stories' unfolds in a series of amusing and poignant vignettes in which we discover larger-than-life characters, the downside of survival, and the powerful voices of the art itself. The result is a novel bursting with magic, humour, and energetic detail, but also a beautiful book about introspection, an ode to lives lived for art, ultimately building a powerful collage of human experience and the world of the imagination.
A surreal love letter to this private side of The Met, 'Metropolitan Stories' unfolds in a series of amusing and poignant vignettes in which we discover larger-than-life characters, the downside of survival, and the powerful voices of the art itself. The result is a novel bursting with magic, humour, and energetic detail, but also a beautiful book about introspection, an ode to lives lived for art, ultimately building a powerful collage of human experience and the world of the imagination.
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Author | Coulson, Christine |
Availability | IP |
Department | Literature |
Format | Hardback |
ISBN | 9781590510582 |
Pages | 208 |
Published | 08/10/2019 |
Publisher | The Other Press |
Section | Literature |
Size Unfolded | 190x127mm |
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