Description: In this stunning debut novel, English playwright Edward Carey crafts a modern Gothic tale around the crumbling "Observatory Mansions" and its reclusive, eccentric tenants. Reminiscent of Beckett, Ionesco, and Stephen Millhauser, "Observatory Mansions" is the British literary sensation that John Fowles called "easily the most brilliant fiction I've read this year." Illustrations.
Review Quotes: "A sublime take on the Gothic horror novel, an endearing love story...and a triumphant argument for how brilliant the novel can still be."-Detroit Free Press
"Readers who complain there's no originality left in the world should visit Observatory Mansions."-USA Today "A funny, sad, and provocative novel."-The Washington Post Book World "Observatory Mansions is a strange and beautiful book. . . . That this is a first novel is a wonder." --The Memphis Flyer