Metropolitan Stories

By Christine Coulson

Book Overview

From a writer who has worked at the Metropolitan Museum for more than twenty-five years, an enchanting novel that uses the lens of magical realism to show us the Met that the public doesn't see.

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 museum's 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, humor, 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590510585
• ISBN13: 9781590510582
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Other Press (NY)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.6"