Was She Pretty?
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (501 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005M4ND9Y |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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An absolute delight! JamieJo This book was recommended by a friend during one of those futile times at the end of a relationship. It was funny and insightful and I loved it from beginning to end.. Jessica said An excellent pass around book.. This is definitely a great book. I wish each of the relationship stories were a little longer though.. Charming little book This is such a charming read. Perfect conversation starter to leave out on your coffee table, etc. Pretty little book!
men's and women's Olympic swim teams. Entire relationships are encapsulated in a few, stingingly perfect lines: "Colleen was Walter's ex-girlfriend from med school. Was She Pretty? can also share the shelf with the work of the legendary William Steig, whose early, psychologically revealing work inspired Shapton. She wore small white shorts year-round."Fascinated by her own jealousy, Shapton interviewed acquaintances about their anxieties and peccadilloes, and the result is a book of surpassing originality: one of those unusual books that comes along to delight us all, like An Exaltation of Larks or Love, Loss, and What I Wore or Griffin and Sabine. She loved to dance with men at weddings." Pricking our insecurities, Shapton introduces us to Kim, whose ex "kept a drawerful of love letters in a kitchen drawer She would stare at it while
She has contributed work to The New York Times, Harper's, The New Yorker, GQ, Jane, Flaunt, and Seventeen, among others. She runs J&L Books with the photographer Jason Fulford.. Leanne Shapton is an art director, illustrator, artist, and publisher based in NewYork
(Nov.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers Weekly Illustrator Leanne Shapton's debut reads like a graphic-novel-cum-children's-book: each spread includes one or more scratchy, b&w line drawings plus short, facing-page, poetryesque texts. . All rights reserved. Its content, though, leans much more toward Sex In the City than Shel Silverstein, exploring conflicting feelings aroused in women by their boyfriends' ex-lovers. It's narrated (and drawn) by a sharp but weary onlooker who is very intimate with all the principles, who seem to form a loose circle of friends. A picture depicting "one of the women Len used to know" shows a dour, hot, tight-sweater-wearing woman who is summed-up with deadpan wit: in one sentence, she's "an opin