- Apartment houses, Fiction, Literature, Fiction, short stories (single author)
Farro Fescu is the proud and observant concierge of Echo Terrace, a condominium in New York City.
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Contemporary, grave, prestige and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Nicholas Rinaldi
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, Bantam Press, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061873744
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First sentence
“In Nora Abernooth' ninth-floor apartment, there are finches, canaries, three marmosets, a defanged cobra, a tortoise, and a macaw with blue and gold feathers.”
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