PRE-ORDER: All the Beauty in the World: A Museum Guard’s Adventures in Life, Loss and Art by Patrick Bringley

A revelatory portrait of a great museum and the moving story of one guard's quest to find solace and meaning in art

When Patrick’s older brother dies at twenty-six, all he wants is to retreat. So, he does. He quits his job and seeks refuge in the most beautiful place he can think of: New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

All the Beauty in the World recounts Patrick’s time as a museum guard, keeping quiet vigil over some of our greatest treasures and uncovering the Met’s innermost secrets. As his connection to the art and the life that swirls around it grows, so does Patrick – and gradually he emerges transformed by heartbreak, community and the power of art to illuminate life in all its pain, pleasure and hope.

REVIEWS

'Who would have thought that the outstanding art book of you would have been written not by a curator or an art historian or even an artist - but by a museum guard?." - Sunday Times

"Consoling and beautiful." ― Guardian

"Hauntingly beautiful ... elegant ... a work of art as luminous as the old masters' paintings that comforted [Bringley] in his grief." ― Daily Mail Online

PRODUCT DETAILS
Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 978-1529924596
Pages: 240