The caretaker
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Spring Valley-Finkelstein Memorial Library - Adult Fiction | FIC Arbus, Doon | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : New Directions Book, 2020.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
134 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"A New Directions book."
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"Following the death of a renowned and eccentric collector-author of Stuff, a seminal philosophical work on the art of accumulation-the 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 interplanetary crystal that is one of the museum's treasures, is rare, glistening, and of a compacted inwardness."--Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Arbus, D. (2020). The caretaker (First edition.). New Directions Book.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Arbus, Doon. 2020. The Caretaker. New Directions Book.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Arbus, Doon. The Caretaker New Directions Book, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Arbus, Doon. The Caretaker First edition., New Directions Book, 2020.
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