The Caretaker by Doon Arbus - 9780811234771

Name: The Caretaker by Doon Arbus - 9780811234771
Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation

New Directions Publishing Corporation

The CaretakerAuthor(s): Doon Arbus\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation, United States\nImprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation\nISBN-13: 9780811234771, 978-0811234771\nSynopsis\nFollowing the death of a renowned and eccentric collectorauthor of Stuff, a seminal philosophical work on the art of accumulationthe fate of the privately endowed museum he cherished falls to a peripatetic stranger who had been his fervent admirer. This peculiar institution (The Society for the Preservation of the Legacy of Dr Charles Alexander Morgan) is dedicated to the annihilation of hierarchy: peerless antiquities commune happily with the ignored, the discarded, the undervalued and the valueless. What transpires as the caretaker assumes dominion over this reliquary of voiceless objects and over its visitors is told in a manner at once obsessive and matter of fact, and in language both cocooning and expansive. A wry and haunting tale, The Caretaker, like the interpl.