Friends of the museum : a novel / Heather McGowan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGowan, Heather, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

Museums.

Anthropological ethics--Fiction.

Anthropological ethics.

Cultural property--Destruction and pillage--Fiction.

Cultural property.

Museums--Employees--Fiction.

Museum curators--Fiction.

Museum curators.

New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

Humorous stories, American.

Psychological fiction, American.

Genre:

Black humor.

Psychological fiction.

Humorous fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

vi, 483 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First Washington Square Press/Atria Books hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Washington Square Press/Atria, 2025

Summary:

When Diane Schwebe, the director of a major New York museum, is awakened in the early morning by a text message from the museum's lawyer, it is the start of a twenty-four hour roller-coaster ride. Diane has sacrificed many things in her life to help the fading institution stave off irrelevance and financial ruin. In this battle, she's surrounded by her stalwart supporters: her enigmatic and tireless personal assistant, Chris; the museum's trusty head of security, Shay; and its general counsel, Henry -- a man whose ability to weasel his way out of a jam is matched only by his capacity to avoid learning anything from the experience. Orbiting Diane is a motley assortment of museum employees, each on the precipice of collapse or revelation: among them a line cook staring down a huge opportunity he's not sure he wants; a costume curator stuck in an inescapable rut; and the ambivalent curator of the museum's film program, whose first day on the job might very well be his last. On this day of the museum's annual gala, every plate that Diane has kept spinning will fall and by daybreak, someone will be dead. Wise, surprising, and darkly funny, Friends of the Museum is a kaleidoscopic tragicomedy that surges along to the unstoppable tick of the clock, leaving you on the edge of your seat until the final second.

ISBN:

9781668031278

1668031272

OCLC:

1438663936