{"product_id":"metropolitan-stories","title":"Metropolitan Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e“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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Principles of Uncertainty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHidden 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA surreal love letter to this private side of the Met,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eMetropolitan Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43346744541219,"sku":"9781635420937","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0286\/8582\/8131\/files\/i_fab83587-dfb0-4bf1-9773-e7b6fd75dc92.jpg?v=1783613940","url":"https:\/\/shop.gamblehouse.org\/products\/metropolitan-stories","provider":"The Gamble House Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}