50 Things to Do with a Book: (Now That Reading Is Dead) - Couverture rigide

McCall, Bruce

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0061703664 ISBN 13 : 9780061703669

Editeur : It Books, 2009

Synopsis

In a world where reading is reportedly dead, renowned humorist, illustrator, and New Yorker contributor Bruce McCall offers 50 inventive, outlandish, and wickedly entertaining things to do with all those excess books in 50 Things to Do with a Book. From starting a band, building a stairway to paradise, and saving your town from a flood to improving your marriage, entertaining guests, or killing a mockingbird, the options presented in 50 Things to Do with a Book are brilliant, visionary, ironic, and absurd.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Bruce McCall's written and illustrated satire is a familiar part of the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other major publications, and he has published two books of collected humor, Zany Afternoons and All Meat Looks like South America, as well as a memoir of growing up Canadian, Thin Ice. McCall has also just published his first children's book, Marveltown. He lives in New York City.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Reading may be dead, but books are alive and well

What good are books, you may be wondering, if we're not going to read them? What are we even doing in this bookstore? Not to worry! It turns out that there are literally thousands of things to do with these chunky stacks of bound tree pulp. Fun, exciting, adventurous, creative things. In fact, this familiar rectangular object suddenly offers enough dazzling new interactive possibilities to, yes, fill a book. This book. From re-creating world wonders to settling marital disputes, entertaining dinner guests to channeling your inner secret agent, here are fifty wonderfully zany things to do with all your favorite books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: It Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061703664
• ISBN 13: 9780061703669
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible