Metropolitan Stories

"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. 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."--Provided by publisher.

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  Metropolitan Museum of Art · United States

  Entire novel set inside the Met; staff, ghosts, and opinionated artworks over decades
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