The Learners: The Book After "The Cheese Monkeys"
(Sprache: Englisch)
Fresh out of college in the summer of 1961, our protagonist, Happy, lands his first job at a small Connecticut advertising agency populated by a cast of endearing eccentrics. There's Sketchy Spear, the lovable, aging illustrator whose meticulous drawings of...
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Fresh out of college in the summer of 1961, our protagonist, Happy, lands his first job at a small Connecticut advertising agency populated by a cast of endearing eccentrics. There's Sketchy Spear, the lovable, aging illustrator whose meticulous drawings of potato chips Happy regards as masterpieces; Tip Skikne, the quick-witted young copywriter always hunting for the next snappy slogan; Mimi Rakoff, the company's leathery, slack-breasted matriarch; and her slobbering great dane, Hamlet. Together, they struggle to hold on to their few clients and perhaps gain a new account. When Happy is tapped to design a newspaper ad recruiting participants for Stanley Milgram's notorious "Obedience to Authority" experiment, he can't resist responding to the ad himself. Little does he know, the experience will devastate him, forcing him to re-examine his past, his soul, and the nature of human cruelty--chiefly, his own.
Autoren-Porträt von Chip Kidd
Chip Kidd is a writer and graphic designer in New York City. His first novel, THE CHEESE MONKEYS, was a national bestseller as well as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Chip Kidd
- 2009, 258 Seiten, Maße: 13,1 x 19,1 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Perennial
- ISBN-10: 0061673242
- ISBN-13: 9780061673245
Sprache:
Englisch
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''The Learners is a funny novel...For an Image guy, Kidd has infectious fun with words...But Kidd's use and explication of graphic design -- Happy's means of expressing himself -- is what's most striking here....The Learners is witty and well observed as an office comedy, as a meditation on art and as a story of self-discovery...the book is packed with sharp insights....Kidd ultimately is a brilliant, self-aware designer and a clever writer...the book's charms are, literally and figuratively, in the details: the visual observations, the comedy of the office's small-stakes battles and the meditations on Kidd's own graphic art, which at their best moments serve his protagonist's character as well." -New York Times Book Review"[The Learners] offers an enjoyable introduction to another world and a major writing talent....genuinely interesting...sympathetic characters, funny lines, a firm grasp of time and place, and a plot that makes surprising shifts without ever losing its way....[Chip Kidd is] an author to watch." -USA Today
"Iconic graphic designer Kidd coins a new genre-stylized sentimentalism (think AMC's Mad Men without the bile)-to tell this tale of a creative naif's aesthetic and emotional coming of age. . . . Grade: A" -Washington Post
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