{"product_id":"the-caretaker-paperback-4","title":"The Caretaker - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDoon Arbus\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the death of a renowned and eccentric collector--author of \u003cem\u003eStuff\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Caretaker\u003c\/em\u003e, like the interplanetary crystal that is one of the museum's treasures, is rare, glistening, and of a compacted inwardness.\u003cbr\u003e Kafka or Shirley Jackson may come to mind, and \u003cem\u003eThe Caretaker\u003c\/em\u003e may conjure up various genres--parables, ghost stories, locked-room mysteries--but Doon Arbus draws her phosphorescent water from no other writer's well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 7.97 x 5.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42731985928255,"sku":"9780811234771","price":19.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/8de931fee71feef159a7fd4ae4512c80.webp?v=1765130859","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-caretaker-paperback-4","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}