Observatory Mansions
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
- Publish date: 01/01/2000
Description:
Why does this novel's narrator, who practices the art of stillness and touches nothing without the protection of white gloves, who collects useless articles only because their owners have loved them, come to seem, not odd, but supremely human and much like us? And why do his parents, who remember from opposite ends of the past-and-future spectrum, seem so emblematic of all parents? And why does the nearly blind Anna Tap inspire nearly blind trust?
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The setting is a crumbling apartment block in the middle of a busy traffic circle, once the narrator's grand ancestral home. The characters are its residents, whose eccentricities are finally trumped by their deep humanity. And it all adds up to an absolutely singular novel that is also old fashioned in its way, with a plot, a mystery, a love story, and a revelation.
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