Every Person on the Planet: An Only Somewhat Anxiety-Filled Tale for the Holidays (精装)
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品牌: Bruce Eric Kaplan
基本信息出版社:Simon & Schuster (2005年10月25日)外文书名:邀请地球上的所有人: 使人充满焦虑的假日聚会精装:128页正文语种:英语ISBN:0743274709条形码:9780743274708产品尺寸及重量:19.3 x 15.5 x 1.5 cm ; 295 gASIN:0743274709商品描述内容简介在线阅读本书
Every Person On The Planettells the delightful story of Edmund and Rosemary, an average couple who lead an uneventful life, and what happens when one fateful day they decide to throw a party for the holidays. As their guest list becomes longer and longer, they become paralyzed with the fear of forgetting anyone. So naturally, there's only one thing to do--they invite every person on the planet. They never expect that the whole world will show. But what happens when the whole world does?Every Person On The Planetis hilarious, touching, thoughtful, and uniquely beautiful. We think this is an altogether perfect book and you will too.编辑推荐From Publishers Weekly
Edmund and Rosemary lead quiet lives in their Brooklyn apartment with their cat and their neuroses. One day, despite their preference for solitude, they inexplicably decide to throw a party. They feel obliged to invite so many people they do not particularly like that they finally decide they might as well invite everybody in the world. So they do, and most of the world's population shows up. Author and illustrator Kaplan was not only a writer forSeinfeldandSix Feet Under, but he is also a cartoonist for theNew Yorker. Heavily illustrated with cartoons on almost every page,Every Personis like a children's storybook written for adults. Though Kaplan engages in surreal exaggeration for comic effect, Edmund and Rosemary's soiree is all too recognizably real. Party givers will empathize with the hosts' worries that their fete will turn into a disaster; party goers will admire Kaplan's keen observations on social behavior. Kaplan's cartoons turn adults into appealingly childlike figures, and he has a talent for visual understatement that fits the dry manner in which he describes the absurdities of this gathering of six billion in one New York apartment. Anyone who has ever given a party should be delighted by this charming, humorous book.(Nov.)
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