Paris Out of Hand: A Wayward Guide
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (718 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000JBY0EM |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-11 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
From the author of The Transitive Vampire, comes an invitation to a strangely illuminated City of Light, Paris out of Hand. This seductively beautiful replica of a 19th-century travel book—replete with illustrations of sights you will never see and maps that may plummet you into a different era—guides readers through the Paris that is, that might be, and that never was. From the disconcerting Brasserie Loplop, steal your chair for the Cinema Pont Neuf, whose movies flow onto the Seine. Unhandy glossaries help you talk your way through these provocative encounters, with such apropos comments as J'aimerais sortir avec votre hyene pour boire un verre (I'd like to take your hyena out for a drink). A rare and rowdy entertainment that dares its readers to explore a Paris one can only wish existed.. Amid the Parisian locales you know and love, unheard-of temptations abound. Your curiosity sated for the day, check into Hotel des Etrangers, where phantoms change the sheets and your room in the mi
Disappointing J. L. Kisamore This book did not come close to the Griffin and Sabine series despite its recommendation for people who like Bantok's work. While parts are funny, other parts are too hard to follow or just too outrageous to get what the author is trying to convey.. lovely book Lovely useless french phrases that just beg you to use them."there is a frog in my bidet". How great is that.Superb imagination. On both the behalf of the writer and the illustrator.. "Is it a guide? Is it a novel? No! It's a work of art!" according to T. Lumsdaine. Curiously, my local bookshop stocks this wonderful book in the "Travel" section. From the cover with the inverted Eiffel Tower to the hilarious "hotel features" icons, even the least adventurous armchair traveller can deduce that this is indeed a unique tourist guide. It is a guide of sorts: taking the Parisians on at their own game it transforms a city known for its absurdities into a whimsical looking-glass world where nothing is as it seems. Bantock's incredible illustrations and the feast of found images adorn the author's intoxicating
. Her illustrated novels include The Tattooed Map , The Sensualist , and Hippolyte's Island . Nick Bantock is the author of numerous illustrated novels, including Griffin & Sabine , Sabine's Notebook , The Golden Mean , The Gryphon , and Alexandria , which together spent 100 weeks on the New York Times best
. Meticulously drawn, finely detailed and brimming with whimsy, they are happily reminiscent of those in Bantock's own Griffin & Sabine books. Admirers of Gordon's previous work, which includes the popular grammar handbook The Transitive Vampire and the novel The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales, will not be surprised to find her drawing heavily on the work of such writers as Paul Valery, Guillaume Apollinaire and Raymond Queneau for her wealth of puns, wordplay and double-entendres. In Gordon's Paris, tourists may stop at the Grand Hotel des Echecs, home to a clientele made up of chess lovers and losers ("echecs" means both "ches