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Disclaimer: I received a copy of this release from
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Do you dream of being locked in a bookstore or museum overnight? Did you love the movie Night at the Museum? If so, you'll love Christine Coulson's inventive and funny collection, Metropolitan Stories (releasing 10/8/19). Not only does she take readers behind the scenes and down the mazes of hallways, and through the storerooms of the Metropolitan Museum (she worked at the museum for twenty-five years) but she lets her imagination run wild with her stories about the paintings, furniture, workers, and art. A chair that longs to be sat in, a collection of muses comes to life, and love letters from the art to the museum staff are just a few of the subjects included. This was a fun, quick read and I always think short story collections are the answer to anyone who is in a reading funk, so grab this one up and have it on hand the next time you find yourself in one.
Summary:
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.
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