The Learners - Couverture rigide

Kidd, Chip

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ISBN 10 : 0743255240 ISBN 13 : 9780743255240

Editeur : Simon & Schuster International, 2008

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 :

Set in the early 1960s, The Learners is the stand alone sequel to Kidd's previous novel, The Cheese Monkeys. Always entertaining and often moving, The Learners is the story of Happy, a young graphic designer who lands his first job at a wacky advertising firm in New Haven, Connecticut. Among his colourful co-workers is Sketch, the lovable, aging illustrator whose finely-crafted drawings of potato chips are regarded by Happy as near masterpieces; Tip, the quick-witted copy-writer who's always hunting for the next snappy slogan; and Mimi, the cold, eccentric matriarch, who treats her enormous dog as if he's her husband. Happy fits right in among these likable eccentrics, and together, they struggle to hold onto their most important client, Cringle Potato Chips, and land the new and lucrative Buckle Shoes account.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster International
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0743255240
• ISBN 13: 9780743255240
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288