The Cheese Monkeys - Brossura

Kidd, Chip

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ISBN 10: 0743231023 ISBN 13: 9780743231022

Casa editrice: Scribner, 2003

Riassunto

A hilarious debut novel that could only be described as a portrait of the designer as a young man. 'Show me something I've never seen before and will never be able to forget - if you can do that, you can do anything.' It's 1957, long before computers have replaced the trained eye and skilful hand. Our narrator at State University is determined to major in Art, and after several risible false starts, he accidentally ends up in a new class: 'Introduction to Graphic Design'. His teacher is the enigmatic Winter Sorbeck, equal parts genius, seducer and sadist. Sorbeck is a bitter yet fascinating man whose assignments hurl his charges through a gauntlet of humiliation and heartache, shame and triumph, ego-bashing and enlightenment. Along the way, friendships are made and undone, jealousies simmer, and the sexual tango weaves and dips. By the end of their 'Introduction to Graphic Design', Sorbeck's students will never see the world in the same way again. And, with Chip Kidd's insights into the secrets of graphic design, neither will you.

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'Art school in the '50s - for the first and probably definitive time. This wise, funny and ragingly shrewd first novel explodes all the myths of academia and brilliantly builds its own. The world's greatest book-jacket designer finds a second spellbinding artistic voice' JAMES ELLROY
'Not only has Chip Kidd altered the face of publishing with his revolutionary book jackets, he has also written a really good debut novel, and the big surprise is that the edgy, post-modern graphic designer...is a pleasing, elegant traditionalist between covers. The Cheese Monkeys...has suspense, likeable and vivid characters, a romantic, pitch-perfect recreation of late 50s behaviour and slang, and effortlessly sustained comic charm. I can't remember the last timeI read what is ostensibly a "college" novel that actually taught me something' BRET EASTON ELLIS
'Kidd's gifts as a designer are also his gifts as a writer: wit, exquisite taste, high energy, and a mad love for the things of this world. A wild ride through a unique consciousness' GEORGE SAUNDERS
'One of the most vivid, expert, hilarious, and strangely gripping accounts of what it means to learn how to see. If The Cheese Monkeys weren't so intelligent, rollicking and downright entertaining, it would be chastening indeed to find that someone as visually gifted as Mr Kidd also turned out to have considerable verbal plumage, as well' DAVID RAKOFF

L'autore

Chip Kidd, the associate art director of jackets and special projects at Knopf Publishing, has long been recognised as a leading pioneer in book-cover art. He is the recipient of numerous graphic design honours and awards. This is his first novel.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Scribner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0743231023
• ISBN 13: 9780743231022
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile