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Doon Arbus (born April 3, 1945) is an American writer and journalist. Her debut novel is The Caretaker (New Directions, 2020). Her play, Third Floor, Second Door on the Right, was produced at the Cherry Lane Theatre by the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival.
A lush, disorienting novel, The Caretaker by Doon Arbus takes no prisoners as it explores the perils of devotion and the potentially lethal charisma of things. 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 ...
Sep 22, 2023 · When Diane Arbus died in 1971 at the age of 48, she didn’t leave a will. It fell to her eldest daughter, the writer and novelist Doon Arbus, to deal with her still-emergent work as a pioneering...
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Sep 11, 2020 · The Caretaker. Doon Arbus. New Directions | September 15, 2020. Doon Arbus understands what it means to defend a legacy. Her mother was the famous photographer Diane Arbus, known for her curious, unblinking, sometimes astonishingly intimate portraits of marginalized subjects.
Nov 22, 2023 · Literature’s existential preoccupation with “stuff” is explicit in Doon Arbus’s novel, The Caretaker. The novel weaves a narrative about the organization of details that meditates on the meaning of stuff—that slippery thing (or things) that populates history and helps us decipher who we are as individuals against the existence of ...
One of ‘A Box of Ten Photographs’ by Diane Arbus, 1970. It was published after the photographer’s death by her daughter Doon Arbus and Neil Selkirk, who printed for her during her lifetime. All the prints are marked on the reverse with three stamps, and with the edition number 18/50, the title and the signature of Doon Arbus in ink.
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Sep 15, 2020 · The Caretaker. Hardcover – September 15, 2020. by Doon Arbus (Author) 4.3 17 ratings. See all formats and editions. Book Description. Editorial Reviews. A lush, disorienting novel, The Caretaker takes no prisoners as it explores the perils of devotion and the potentially lethal charisma of things.
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