Edward Gorey: From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey, Gebunden
From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey
- Publisher:
- Tom Fitzharris
- Publisher:
- New York Review of Books, 02/2025
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781681379050
- Item number:
- 11868252
- Volume:
- 248 Pages
- Weight:
- 567 g
- Format:
- 209 x 157 mm
- Thickness:
- 26 mm
- Release date:
- 4.2.2025
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
On the envelopes of letters sent to a dear friend, the famed artist and writer Edward Gorey drew dozens of original illustrations---illustrations now collected in this volume along with marvelously playful selections from the correspondence, all never before seen by the public until now. From Ted to Tom will be published in the centenary year of Edward Gorey's birth.
When Tom Fitzharris met Edward "Ted" Gorey in 1974, the two quickly struck up a friendship. Over the next year Gorey sent a total of fifty letters to Fitzharris. Every envelope Fitzharris received was illustrated by Gorey, and filled with surprises: typewritten letters with news and opinions from Gorey's life, handwritten note cards with unexpected quotes, sketches, inside jokes, and a host of other joyous miscellany.
Assembled here for the first time, these envelopes and their contents deliver all the humor, imagination, gossip, and wonder that came with being Edward Gorey's pen pal.
Biography (Edward Gorey)
Edward Gorey, geboren 1925 in Chicago. Im knöchellangen Pelzmantel wurde der Artdirector des Verlags Doubleday and Co. zum stadtbekannten New Yorker Exzentriker. Weltbekannt machten ihn seine Bildergeschichten. Die Ehrungen seines Werks reichten vom Deutschen Jugendbuchpreis bis zum Verbot durch das österreichische Innenministerium wegen Pornographie. Der Ballettomane Gorey verließ New York, als sein Lieblingstänzer Balanchine in Rente ging. Bis zu seinem Tod im April 2000 lebte er zurückgezogen auf Cape Cod.
