The Learners: The Book After "The Cheese Monkeys" - Couverture souple

Kidd, Chip

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ISBN 10 : 0061673242 ISBN 13 : 9780061673245

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2009

Synopsis

Book by Kidd Chip

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

“[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)

“Snappy....Kidd invents a banter-filled workplace worthy of Howard Hawks, gleefully tweaks the old-guard panic of the Mad Men-era ad world, and even throws in a few typographic bells and whistles...A-” (Entertainment Weekly)

“Chip Kidd, in his second novel, The Learners, repeats and evolves the typographical high jinks he gave us in The Cheese Monkeys....Kidd’s quirky approach to life is endearingly recognizable in its expression.” (Los Angeles Times)

“Arresting and hip....captivating.” (Christian Science Monitor)

“The advertising business and the [Milgram psychology] experiment are linked in this swift, often funny and always intelligent book.” (Hartford Courant)

“Amusing and thought-provoking.” (New York Newsday)

“Kidd smoothly mixes the reality of Milgram’s rather sinister work with the fiction of Happy’s new life in advertising....Even more impressive than the blend of fiction and fact is the way that “The Learners” shifts from raucous ad office comedy to the tragic repercussions of the Yale experiments.” (Connecticut Post Online)

“Like “The Cheese Monkeys,” “The Learners” is about learning--again under duress--to see everything, including oneself, differently....[In] Kidd’s attempt to blend the satirical and serious...he modulates the mix just right in the novel’s redemptive climax, which is both wild and winning, funny and moving.” (San Francisco Chronicle)

“Required reading.” (New York Post)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Fresh out of college in the summer of 1961, Happy lands his first job as a graphic designer (okay, art assistant) at a small Connecticut advertising agency populated by a cast of endearing eccentrics. Life for Happy seems to be -- well, happy. But when he's assigned to design a newspaper ad recruiting participants for an experiment in the Yale Psychology Department, Happy can't resist responding to the ad himself. Little does he know that the experience will devastate him, forcing a reexamination of his past, his soul, and the nature of human cruelty -- chiefly, his own. Written in sharp, witty prose and peppered with absorbing ruminations on graphic design, The Learners again shows that Chip Kidd's writing is every bit as original, stunning, and memorable as his celebrated book jackets.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061673242
• ISBN 13: 9780061673245
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 258