Revenge of the Librarians
Spiral-Bound | 2022-10-18
Tom Gauld
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Revenge of the Librarians
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Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the author
Tom Gauld returns with his wittiest and most trenchant collection of literary cartoons to date. Perfectly composed drawings are punctuated with the artist's signature brand of humor, hitting high and low. After all, Gauld is just as comfortable taking jabs at Jane Eyre and Game of Thrones.
Some particularly favored targets include the pretentious procrastinating novelist, the commercial mercenary of the dispassionate editor, the willful obscurantism of the vainglorious poet. Quake in the presence of the stack of bedside books as it grows taller! Gnash your teeth at the ever-moving deadline that the writer never meets! Quail before the critic's incisive dissection of the manuscript! And most important, seethe with envy at the paragon of creative productivity!
Revenge of the Librarians contains even more murders, drubbings, and castigations than The Department of Mind-Blowing Theories, Baking with Kafka, or any other collections of mordant scribblings by the inimitably excellent Gauld.
Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Hardcover Paper over boards
Pages: 180 pages
ISBN-10: 1770466169
Item Weight: 1.1 lbs
Dimensions: 9.6 x 0.9 x 5.6 inches
Customer Reviews: 3 out of 5 stars 1,001 to 10,000 ratings
Praise for Tom Gauld
"Over the past few years, Gauld's style has become instantly recognizable. His figures… stand in for a kind of Everyman or woman, up against institutions and social mores that Gauld is intent on presenting as silly."--The New York Times
"Precise and wryly hilarious."--NPR
"Simply hilarious." --Buzzfeed Books
Tom Gauld is a cartoonist and illustrator. He has weekly comic strips in The Guardian and New Scientist and his comics have been published in The New York Times, The Believer, and on the cover of the TheNew Yorker. In addition to his graphic novels Baking with Kafka, Goliath, Mooncop, and You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, he has designed a number of book covers. Gauld lives and works in London.
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