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 D?rer 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.?
