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| Title | : | Observatory Mansions |
| Author | : | Edward Carey |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | February 5th 2002 by Vintage (first published April 1st 2000) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Gothic. Fantasy. Contemporary |
Edward Carey
Paperback | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 3.93 | 1414 Users | 193 Reviews
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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.Details Books As Observatory Mansions
| Original Title: | Observatory Mansions |
| ISBN: | 0375709231 (ISBN13: 9780375709234) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.93 From 1414 Users | 193 ReviewsJudge Regarding Books Observatory Mansions
Wonderful in its strangeness. Blissfully deranged. Unsettling in all the right ways.I've read two Edward Carey novels now, and he definitely has a pattern: eccentric agoraphobes in unidentified geographic regions referred to as "our city" and "our country" respectively. Despite the similarities, I enjoyed this much more than Alva & Irva.Although... "enjoy" might be the wrong word. Observatory Mansions was almost painful to read sometimes, mostly because these oddball characters were a little too familiar. The narrator, Francis Orme, puts it better:We who lived in
Very disappointing...hard to read all the way to the end!
"Observatory Mansions" sat on my bookshelf for 10 years, doubtless, as the characters in the novel yearn for stasis and anonymity and to stay on their own strange courses, the book wanted to be left alone. But things change. Change comes even to the seven people who dwell in the flats of Observatory Mansions. Here, the agent of change is an odd woman named Anna Tap, who is going blind. The story is narrated by Francis Orme, latest in a long line of Francis Ormes, who lives with parents so
Droning repetitive circular deliberately over-extended narration. I'm sure it's for Important Literary Reasons but I'm not reading 245 pages of it.
I have been racking my brain trying to remember the name of this book ever since joining goodreads, so that I could put it on my "read" list.I've just found it -- seconds ago!! -- in a pile under my living room coffee table. Which tells you how well (badly) I catalogue my books, not to mention remember them.This book is extraordinary. I'd give it five stars, but I'd have to re-read it to be absolutely certain of my recollection. I don't even know if my 4-star rating is because I liked the book,
Francis Orme may be one of the greatest characters in literature, not because he is warm and lovable (quite the contrary) but because of the way he draws strong emotional reactions from the reader. This reader is no exception. I went from feeling suspicious about him to really wondering about his motives to loathing him to fearing him to admiring his quirkiness (an understatement, to be sure) to feeling a bit of sympathy for him to feeling a flood of pity for him to hating him to loving him - in
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