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Metropolitan Stories (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781590510582)
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x"Only someone who deeply loves and understands the Metropolitan Museum could deliver such madcap, funny, magical, tender, intimate fables and stories." --Maira Kalman, artist and bestselling author of The Principles of Uncertainty
From a writer who worked at the Metropolitan Museum for more than twenty-five years, an enchanting novel that shows 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.
Author: Christine Coulson
ISBN-10: 1590510585
ISBN-13: 9781590510582
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 10/08/2019
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.20w x 1.00d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 08/26/2019
Booklist 11/01/2019 pg. 35
From a writer who worked at the Metropolitan Museum for more than twenty-five years, an enchanting novel that shows 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.
Author: Christine Coulson
ISBN-10: 1590510585
ISBN-13: 9781590510582
Publisher: Other Press (NY)
Language: English
Published: 10/08/2019
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.20w x 1.00d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2019
Publishers Weekly 08/26/2019
Booklist 11/01/2019 pg. 35
By Christine Coulson
xChristine Coulson began her career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1991 as a summer intern in the European Paintings Department. She returned in 1994 and, over the next 25 years, rose through the ranks of the Museum, working in the Development Office, the Director's Office, and the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. In 2019 she left the Met to write full-time.
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