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Read [Teller Book] # When I'm Dead All This Will Be Yours: Joe Teller -- A Portrait By His Kid Online # PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. When I'm Dead All This Will Be Yours: Joe Teller -- A Portrait By His Kid The raconteur carries on into the 21st century in style! According to Webster's New World College Dictionary a raconteur is "a person skilled at telling stories or anecdotes". Stories and anecdotes are usually transmitted verbally but this new book by writer and magician, Teller, brings the art of the raconteur to life through the written word. Much more than a biography of his father, Joe (Pad), and mother, Irene (Mam), this book opens a door to the past and gives us a remarkable glimpse into t
| Title | : | When I'm Dead All This Will Be Yours: Joe Teller -- A Portrait By His Kid |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.49 (811 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0922233225 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
When the Inquirer rejected his cartoons, he moved into advertising art just as WWII began. The book is illustrated with 20 of Joe Teller's paintings in color and 50 of his b&w cartoons, plus a half-dozen photos. . Employing excerpts from letters and postcards, Teller successfully re-creates the world of his parents in a relaxed writing style of light humor and easy (yet highly effective) transitions between the past and present. From Publishers Weekly When Teller, the quiet half of the Penn and Teller showbiz team, made one of his monthly Philadelphia visits to see his parents, Joe and Irene ("Pad" and "Mam"), he was shown 100 unpublished cartoons his father drew in 1939. These "wryly observed scenes of Philadelphia street life," as Teller describes them, are in a loose, sk
The raconteur carries on into the 21st century in style! According to Webster's New World College Dictionary a raconteur is "a person skilled at telling stories or anecdotes". Stories and anecdotes are usually transmitted verbally but this new book by writer and magician, Teller, brings the art of the raconteur to life through the written word. Much more than a biography of his father, Joe (Pad), and mother, Irene (Mam), this book opens a door to the past and gives us a remarkable glimpse into the lives of two very talented and intelligent people who raised a remarkable son.In true raconteur style, Joe Teller shares stories and letters he wrote while "rid. Amazon Customer said Five Stars. A life changing story.. Terrific Tellers Besides being the smaller, quieter half of Penn and Teller, Teller does other things as well, and one of the things is write. He has written book and theater reviews, and such journals as _The New Yorker_ have published his essays on topics ranging from Jeffrey Dahmer, to his visit to Fallingwater or his reflections on performing his magic routine with Penn. And with Penn, he has written such funny books as _How to Play with Your Food_. But until I read _When I'm Dead, All _This_ Will Be Yours_, there was something I didn't know about bad-boy, anti-religious, and iconoclastic Teller. He visits his p
On a visit to his elderly artist-parents, Teller found a dusty portfolio of cartoons that his father drew in 1939. Teller asked about the people in the drawings: the streetcar operators, waitresses, soldiers, bums. And Mam and Pad (Irene and Joe) began to unfold the hidden history of their world before their Bundle of Joy came along. Out came the Hobo Shoebox, full of letters Joe wrote while riding the rails during the Great Depression; their daring photos as art students, eloping to escape their feuding families; and the War Trunk. Readers stand beside Teller as Pad teaches him why using a ruler in painting is evil; join Mam as she interprets the designs hidden in Joe's "art
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