{"product_id":"all-the-beauty-in-the-world-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-and-me","title":"All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e bestseller\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNamed one of the best books of the year by the New York Public Library, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBook Riot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e(London).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn “exquisite” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e) “hauntingly beautiful” (Associated Press) portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003estaffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMillions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They’re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits, keeping a watchful eye on the two million square foot treasure house. Caught up in his glamourous fledgling career at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, Patrick Bringley never thought that he’d be one of them. Then his older brother was diagnosed with fatal cancer and he found himself needing to escape the mundane clamor of daily life. So he quit \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e To his surprise and your delight, this temporary refuge becomes Bringley’s home away from home for a decade. We follow him as he guards delicate treasures from Egypt to Rome, strolls the labyrinths beneath the galleries, wears out nine pairs of company shoes, and marvels at the beautiful works in his care. Bringley enters the museum as a ghost, silent and almost invisible, but soon finds his voice and his tribe: the artworks and their creators and the lively subculture of museum guards—a gorgeous mosaic of artists, musicians, blue-collar stalwarts, immigrants, cutups, and dreamers. As his bonds with his colleagues and the art grow, he comes to understand 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the tradition of classic workplace memoirs like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLab Girl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWorking Stiff\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAll the Beauty in the World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is an “empathic” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), “moving” (NPR), “consoling, and beautiful” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e) portrait of a great museum, its hidden treasures, and the people who make it tick, by one of its most intimate observers.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e div\u0026gt;\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50100504690973,"sku":"9781982163310","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781982163310.jpg?v=1750796997","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/all-the-beauty-in-the-world-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-and-me","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}