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The curator : a novel / Owen King.

King, Owen, (author.).

Summary:
"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, 2023.
Subject: Museums > Fiction.
Imaginary places > Fiction.
Revolutions > Fiction.
Museum curators > Fiction.
Brothers > Death > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Conspiracies > Fiction.
Magic realism (Literature)
Fantasy > Fiction.
Genre: Magic realist fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 21 of 25 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 25 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Annie Halenbake Ross Library F Kin (Text) 00157441 ADULT Fiction Available -
Bedford County Library F KIN (Text) 35010001103462 Adult Fiction Checked Out 04/04/2024
Bethel Tulpehocken Public Library KIN (Text) 33249025384219 Fiction Available -
Blossburg Memorial Library F KIN (Text) 30063000280745 Adult Fiction Available -
Boone Area Library KIN (Text) 33249024522272 Fiction Available -
Cambria County Library FICTION Kin (Text) 85131001901462 CACM Fiction Available -
Degenstein Community Library FIC KING (Text) 35031301254080 Adult Fiction Available -
Dillsburg Area Public Library Adults KIN Fiction (Text) 34001001434289 Adult Area Available -
Emmaus Public Library FIC KING, OWEN (Text) 36446002084922 Adult Recent Reads Checked Out 04/02/2024
Exeter Community Library KIN (Text) 33249025528237 Fiction Checked Out 04/16/2024

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