· The Caretaker is an enigmatic and necessary book, especially for those conflicted about the physical detritus accumulated over the course of a life." Ploughshares "Doon Arbus' debut novel is a kind of mystery--about who we become, what the absent leave us with, and www.doorway.ru: New Directions Publishing Corporation. THE CARETAKER. by Doon Arbus ‧ RELEASE DATE: tomorrow. A brief novel cluttered with words about a small museum cluttered with objects. The unnamed protagonist of Arbus’ debut novel has the charge of a house museum devoted to the possessions and legacy of Charles A. Morgan, a chemist, philosopher, collector, and the author of the influential Stuff, a book about—well, you can www.doorway.ru: Polly Shulman. · In The Caretaker, Doon Arbus’s first novel, curation is on prominent display. Its titular protagonist devotes his life to “things with no agenda [but] to keep you and preserve you in all the ferocious tenderness of their sublime indifference.”Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.
The Caretaker is an enigmatic and necessary book, especially for those conflicted about the physical detritus accumulated over the course of a life." ― Ploughshares "Taking cues from tales by Kafka and Robert Walser, Arbus pulls off an unnerving feat of contemporary postmodernism. A sly debut novel." ― Publishers Weekly. NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley community to discover, request, read, and review. The Caretaker is a profound, probing novel with the momentum and tension of a thriller and is, in the words of Publishers Weekly, an "unnerving feat of contemporary postmodernism." © Doon Arbus (P) Blackstone Publishing.
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. Kafka or Shirley Jackson may come to mind, and The Caretaker may conjure up various genres―parables, ghost stories, locked-room mysteries―but Doon Arbus draws her phosphorescent water from no other writer’s well. The Caretaker is an enigmatic and necessary book, especially for those conflicted about the physical detritus accumulated over the course of a life." Ploughshares "Doon Arbus' debut novel is a kind of mystery--about who we become, what the absent leave us with, and why. In The Caretaker, Doon Arbus’s first novel, curation is on prominent display. Its titular protagonist devotes his life to “things with no agenda [but] to keep you and preserve you in all the ferocious tenderness of their sublime indifference.”.
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