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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand
- Harvest Books
- Binding
- TP
- EAN
- 9780156030212
- ISBN
- 0156030217
- Manufacturer
- Harvest Books
- Book Title
- Amphigorey Again
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Item Length
- 11 in
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Art, Humor
- Topic
- Individual Artists / General, Form / Pictorial
- Item Weight
- 27.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 8 in
- Number of Pages
- 260 Pages
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Product Information
This latest collection displays in glorious abundance the offbeat characters and droll humor of Edward Gorey.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0156030217
ISBN-13
9780156030212
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30538243
Product Key Features
Book Title
Amphigorey Again
Number of Pages
260 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Individual Artists / General, Form / Pictorial
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Humor
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
27.2 Oz
Item Length
11 in
Item Width
8 in
Additional Product Features
Reviews
Gorey's unique talent should be represented as completely as possible in every collection of American art and literature...[AMPHIGOREY AGAIN] is for smart, quiet, arty, mildly daft sorts of all ages., Perhaps only Edward Lear is the late Edward Gorey's peer among writer-artists. Lear considered himself an artist first, and Gorey thought of himself more as a writer. Yet Lear seemingly put greater effort into the texts; Gorey, into the pictures. Lear's drawings often look tossed-off, whereas Gorey's are dense patchworks of tiny patterns, before which his Edwardian personae and fanciful creatures disport, and into which, sometimes, they visually sink. Lear addressed children first; Gorey, adults; but both appeal to anyone with a taste for morbid absurdity. But for its much greater childishness, Lear's sublime "The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went round the World" could be one of Gorey's tales of addled travel, such as "The Headless Bust" in this final omnibus, after Amphigorey (1972), Amphigorey Too (1975), and Amphigorey Also (1983), of Gorey's work. There is less of Gorey at his best here, and some that seems or plainly is incomplete. Still, Gorey's unique talent should be represented as completely as possible in every collection of American art and literature., "Although it's his drawings that hold us--the theatrical poses, the bespoke furniture in penumbral mansions, the malicious topiary--Gorey was also a unique literary stylist...[He] collaborated with phantoms drawn from his own private alphabet." , Although it's his drawings that hold us--the theatrical poses, the bespoke furniture in penumbral mansions, the malicious topiary--Gorey was also a unique literary stylist...[He] collaborated with phantoms drawn from his own private alphabet., PRAISE FOR AMPHIGOREY AGAIN "The meticulous draftsmanship crowding every frame, along with the hilariously overloaded cast of characters, contrasts with the void that is the story's central mystery: not the disappearance of a cherished heirloom . . . but the absence of a coherent plot. A seemingly linear narrative reveals itself as a string of evocative non sequiturs. There's rarely a punch line in Goreyland, just an elegant withdrawal into artifice.", PRAISE FOR EDWARD GOREY "A master of a genre of graphic storytelling [and] a brilliant draftsman."-- The New York Times Book Review "Dark masterpieces of surreal morality . . . Beautifully depicted."-- Vanity Fair, PRAISE FOR AMPHIGOREY AGAIN"The meticulous draftsmanship crowding every frame, along with the hilariously overloaded cast of characters, contrasts with the void that is the story's central mystery: not the disappearance of a cherished heirloom . . . but the absence of a coherent plot. A seemingly linear narrative reveals itself as a string of evocative non sequiturs. There's rarely a punch line in Goreyland, just an elegant withdrawal into artifice."--Los Angeles Times, PRAISE FOR AMPHIGOREY AGAIN "The meticulous draftsmanship crowding every frame, along with the hilariously overloaded cast of characters, contrasts with the void that is the story's central mystery: not the disappearance of a cherished heirloom . . . but the absence of a coherent plot. A seemingly linear narrative reveals itself as a string of evocative non sequiturs. There's rarely a punch line in Goreyland, just an elegant withdrawal into artifice."-- Los Angeles Times, PRAISE FOR AMPHIGOREY AGAIN "The meticulous draftsmanship crowding every frame, along with the hilariously overloaded cast of characters, contrasts with the void that is the story's central mystery: not the disappearance of a cherished heirloom . . . but the absence of a coherent plot. A seemingly linear narrative reveals itself as a string of evocative non sequiturs. There's rarely a punch line in Goreyland, just an elegant withdrawal into artifice."-- Los Angeles Times, PRAISE FOR AMPHIGOREY AGAIN "The meticulous draftsmanship crowding every frame, along with the hilariously overloaded cast of characters, contrasts with the void that is the story's central mystery: not the disappearance of a cherished heirloom . . . but the absence of a coherent plot. A seemingly linear narrative reveals itself as a string of evocative non sequiturs. There's rarely a punch line in Goreyland, just an elegant withdrawal into artifice."-- Los Angeles Times
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