{"product_id":"the-caretaker-by-doon-arbus-9780811234771","title":"The Caretaker","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKafka 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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853310218476,"sku":"9780811234771","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/22731673482476.jpg?v=1759196487","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-caretaker-by-doon-arbus-9780811234771","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}