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1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 31 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Alan Cumming. |
| Summary |
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. A priceless Dürer and other peerless antiquities commune happily with a toothbrush, a plastic coffee cup lid, and the rest of the ignored, the discarded, the undervalued and the valueless. The caretaker, a restless devotee of Dr. Morgan's work, believes he has landed the job of his dreams. But as the years go by and the lines of identity begin to blur, the caretaker learns he must pay a terrible price to inhabit Morgan's home, his history, and the remnants of his life. 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's beautiful, moving, original novel…creates a fictional world that reflects, illuminates, and reveals the 'real' world we live in…[A] wryly funny, subversively philosophical book." "Arbus brilliantly describes the caretaker's distorted sense of the museum as a living, breathing organism and flirts just enough with gothic tropes to dramatize his existential dilemma. Taking cues from tales by Kafka and Robert Walser, Arbus pulls off an unnerving feat of contemporary postmodernism." "Dense, visual, and true, this short book speaks volumes about the theater of the mind and how the ensuing comedic drama we call life unfolds inside and outside our control." "A quite unsettling study of obsession and madness that gradually creeps up on you and makes you complicit with the caretaker at the expense of his more bloodless antagonists because he at least has passion and the courage of his convictions…The end-which, like all perfect endings, is both surprising and inevitable." |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Drama |
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Audiobooks
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| Added Author |
Cumming, Alan.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781665010177 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1665010177 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14051468 |
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