The curator : a novel / Owen King.
It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed “the Fairest”, it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters and many museums; the Morgue Ship; and, like all cities, but maybe especially so, by its essential unmappability. Dora, a former domestic servant at the university, has a secret desire to find where her brother went after he died, believing that the answer lies within The Museum of Psykical Research, where he worked when Dora was a child. With the city amidst a revolutionary upheaval, where citizens like Robert Barnes, her lover and a student radical, are now in positions of authority, Dora contrives to gain the curatorship of the half-forgotten museum only to find it all but burnt to the ground, with the neighboring museums oddly untouched. Robert offers her one of these, The National Museum of the Worker. However, neither this museum, nor the street it is hidden away on, nor Dora herself, are what they at first appear to be. Set against the backdrop of a nation on the verge of collapse, Dora's search for the truth behind the mystery she's long concealed will unravel a monstrous conspiracy and bring her to the edge of worlds.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781982196806
- ISBN: 1982196807
- Physical Description: 468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2023.
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Subject: | Museums > Fiction. Imaginary places > Fiction. Revolutions > Fiction. Museum curators > Fiction. Brothers > Death > Fiction. Secrecy > Fiction. Conspiracies > Fiction. |
Genre: | Magic realist fiction. Fantasy fiction. Novels. |
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Crawford County Library-Steelville | F KIN (Text) | 33431000744308 | New Fiction | Available | - |
Cape Girardeau Public Library | KIN (Text) | 33042004896893 | Adult Science Fiction | Available | - |
Carthage Public Library | FIC King, Owen (Text) | 34MO2001814877 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
De Soto Public Library | F KING Owen (Text) | 33858000016687 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Festus Public Library | Fic King (Text) | 32017000083847 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Arnold | F SCIFAN KING Owen (Text) | 30061100156864 | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Available | - |
Jefferson County Library-Northwest | F SCIFAN KING Owen (Text) | 30051100156873 | Science Fiction/Fantasy | Checked out | 05/28/2024 |
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North Kansas City Public Library | FICTION KING 2023 (Text) | 0001012507137 | Fiction | Available | - |