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ALL THE BEAUTY IN THE WORLD - PATRICK BRINGLEY ...

'A beautifully written manual on how to appreciate art  and life' Tracy Chevalier  author of
Girl with a Pearl Earring 'Wonderful' Natalie Haynes  author of A Thousand Ships 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
'Consoling and beautiful' Guardian

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