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\nMillions of pe ople climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every no ok and cranny. They're the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suit s\, keeping a watchful eye on the two million square foot treasure house. Caught up in his glamourous fledgling career at \;The New Yorker\, Pat rick Bringley never thought that he'd be one of them. Then his older broth er was diagnosed with fatal cancer and he found himself needing to escape the mundane clamor of daily life. So he quit \;The New Yorker \;an d sought solace in the most beautiful place he knew.
\nTo his surpri se and your delight\, this temporary refuge becomes Bringley's home away f rom home for a decade. We follow him as he guards delicate treasures from Egypt to Rome\, strolls the labyrinths beneath the galleries\, wears out n ine pairs of company shoes\, and marvels at the beautiful works in his car e. Bringley enters the museum as a ghost\, silent and almost invisible\, b ut soon finds his voice and his tribe: the artworks and their creators and the lively subculture of museum guards--a gorgeous mosaic of artists\, mu sicians\, blue-collar stalwarts\, immigrants\, cutups\, and dreamers. As h is 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 r esembles the best aspects of the larger world to which he gradually\, grat efully returns.
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