Observatory Mansions

In this stunning debut novel, English playwright Edward Carey crafts a modern Gothic tale around the crumbling Observatory Mansions and its reclusive, eccentric tenants.

Francis Orme earns his livelihood as a living statue. When not practicing ?inner and outer stillness,? Francis steals the [...]
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In this stunning debut novel, English playwright Edward Carey crafts a modern Gothic tale around the crumbling Observatory Mansions and its reclusive, eccentric tenants.

Francis Orme 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 of Observatory Mansions are as odd, and alarmed that the new resident, Anna Tapp, seems determined to provoke a metamorphosis. Reminiscent of Beckett, Ionesco and Stephen Millhauser but startlingly original, Observatory Mansions is the British literary sensation that John Fowles called ?easily the most brilliant fiction I?ve read this year.?