The Caretaker
About this audiobook
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.”
About the author
Doon Arbu s is a journalist and author. She has written and contributed to several books about her mother, the late photographer Diane Arbus. She is the author of a novel, The Caretaker, and as a freelance journalist, she contributed to the New York Daily Herald, The Nation, and Rolling Stone, among others. She wrote the play Third Floor, Second Door on the Right, which was produced by the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival.
Alan Cumming is an award-winning actor, singer, writer, producer, and director. He won a Tony Award for his portrayal of the Emcee in the Broadway musical Cabaret. He is the winner of the 2015 Audie Award for Best Autobiography/Memoir narration and Best Narration by the Author Award.
