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Metropolitan Stories

A Novel

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Metropolitan Stories

By: Christine Coulson
Narrated by: Jill Eikenberry
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From a writer who worked at the Metropolitan Museum for more than 25 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.

©2019 Christine Coulson (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories City Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Magic Magical Realism Short Stories Urban Fantasy Witty

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