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Download # The Strange Case of Edward Gorey PDF by * Alexander Theroux eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. The Strange Case of Edward Gorey Perfect Match A Customer Because Theroux knew Gorey personally, he wisely restricts himself to providing a colorful character portrait, rather than pointless theorizing on Gorey's art. This is a brief book, but, because of the author's lively style, and also certainly because of his unique artistic insight (Theroux and Gorey seem to be two of a kind), much deeper than a more straightforward dissertation might have been.. A very mixed blessing Jeff Cotton This is a peculiar book. It goes on at le
| Title | : | The Strange Case of Edward Gorey |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.53 (561 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1606993844 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 168 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-28 |
| Language | : | English |
“An addictively readable book, stuffed with scandalous morsels of gossip, piquant table talk (Gorey and Theroux were friends), the author’s staircase wit, and his sharply perceptive insights into the mind and art of the incalculable, eccentric Gorey. A poisoned bon-bon of a book. To be read aloud to a friend, in bed, with a glass of absinthe on the night table.” (Mark Dery)“The Strange Case of Edward Gorey revels in Gorey’s intelligence, wit, and marvelous eccentricities.
. His novel Darconville’s Cat was chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the 99 greatest post-war novels. Alexander Theroux is an award-winning novelist, poet, and teacher whose prose works include Laura Warholic or, The Sexual Intellectual, Estonia, and the two artist monographs The Strange Case of Edward Gorey and The Enigma of Al Capp. He lives in Massach
Perfect Match A Customer Because Theroux knew Gorey personally, he wisely restricts himself to providing a colorful character portrait, rather than pointless theorizing on Gorey's art. This is a brief book, but, because of the author's lively style, and also certainly because of his unique artistic insight (Theroux and Gorey seem to be two of a kind), much deeper than a more straightforward dissertation might have been.. A very mixed blessing Jeff Cotton This is a peculiar book. It goes on at length about what EG liked and disliked, and tells us a lot about the author's likes and dislikes too. It's entertaining, but repetative - I like knowing that EG loved Buffy The Vampire Slayer, like me, but didn't need telling four times. I suppose that, Gorey having been a non-travelling, non-marrying recluse, there's not much material to draw on. Theroux spins out. "Gorey, through a filter" according to Eric Stott. As a couple of other reviewers have stated this book is as much about the author as it is about the subject. We don't get Gorey's personality as much as we get Theroux's take on him. Gorey emerges not so much as an individual as a collection of tics and affectationsthough to be fair that might be an accurate picture of the man. This doesn't claim to be a biography but a personal reminiscence and that's a
No Gorey fan can be without it. Black-and-white illustrations and photographs throughout. An intimate, revealing look into the life and art of an American original. Originally released as a slim paperback 10 years ago (now out of print and fetching collector's prices), this in-depth illustrated monograph on the late, great Edward Gorey returns as a thoroughly rewritten, expanded and redesigned hardcover. Drawing from a multitude of reference and his own personal relationship to Gorey, literary heavyweight Alexander Theroux has accomplished an amazing feat of illuminating the real Edward Gorey with ambiguity, wit, fervor and reverence, combined with honest and clear-eyed appraisals of his work
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