- Title: Observatory Mansions A Novel
- Author: Edward Carey
- Year Published: 2000 (Crown Publishers)
- Year Purchased: 2001/2002
- Source: Edward R. Hamilton Bookseller Company
- About: Eccentric, engaging fiction at its best! The bizarre world at the center of the novel is oddly, disturbingly irresistible. What happens when a thirty-something street performer who has never left the nest mixes with his lonely neighbors, when not amassing stolen pieces for his ‘museum of significant objects’?
- Motivation: I’m picky when it comes to fiction, especially contemporary fiction. I don’t like most of it, for a variety of convoluted reasons. I happily make exceptions for works of great imagination or originality guided by strong, firm voices. I could tell from a one paragraph blurb that I would love, love, love this book.
- Times Read: 1
- Random Excerpt/Page 32: “The new resident would be encouraged to leave the next day. Everything would be as it was. No one was going to touch my glove diary.”
- Happiness Scale: 9
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