All the Beauty in the World

ISBN: 9781847926678 Categorii: Diverse, Diverse, Diverse. An apariție: 2023 Autor: Patrick Bringley Editură: Vintage Tip copertă: Hardcover Număr pagini: 240 Stoc: Stoc limitat

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A revelatory portrait of life in a great museum and the moving story of one guard's quest to find solace and meaning in art.


Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase into New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. Patrick Bringley never thought he'd be one of them. But when his brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer he quit his journalism job, and sought peace in the most beautiful place he knew.

To his surprise, this temporary refuge becomes his home away from home for a decade. Bringley enters the museum as a ghost, silent and almost invisible, but soon finds his voice and place among the lively subculture of museum guards. As his bonds with colleagues and the art grow, he learns how fortunate he is to be walled off in this little world and how much it resembles the best aspects of the larger world to which he gradually, gratefully returns.

A beautiful tale about beauty. It is also a tale about grief, balancing solitude and comradeship, and finding joy in both the exalted and the mundane. (Washington Post)

Limba
Engleza
Autor
Patrick Bringley
Data Publicarii
2023
Editura
Vintage
Latime
16
Inaltime
22
Greutate
395
Tip Coperta
Hardcover
Nr Pag
240
Subtitlu
A Museum Guard’s Adventures in Life, Loss and Art
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