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Bruce McCall

    Bruce McCall ist bekannt für seine intelligenten und skurrilen Illustrationen und Essays, die oft die sozialen Ironien des modernen Lebens erforschen. Sein unverwechselbarer Humor und sein visueller Stil finden Anklang in Publikationen wie The New Yorker, wo er sich als herausragende Stimme etabliert hat. McCall's künstlerischer Ansatz, der sich durch fantastische Visionen und geistreiche Beobachtungen auszeichnet, bietet den Lesern eine erfrischende Perspektive auf die alltägliche Realität. Seine Werke sind ein Zeugnis für Kreativität und zeitlosen Witz.

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    50 Things to Do with a Book
    Made in America
    • 50 Things to Do with a Book

      • 112 Seiten
      • 4 Lesestunden

      In a world where reading is reportedly dead, renowned humorist, illustrator, and New Yorker contributor Bruce McCall offers 50 inventive, outlandish, and wickedly entertaining things to do with all those excess books in 50 Things to Do with a Book . From starting a band, building a stairway to paradise, and saving your town from a flood to improving your marriage, entertaining guests, or killing a mockingbird, the options presented in 50 Things to Do with a Book are brilliant, visionary, ironic, and absurd.

      50 Things to Do with a Book2009
      2,8
    • Made in America

      • 592 Seiten
      • 21 Lesestunden

      'Funny, wise, learned and compulsive' - GQ Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big Country, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture. In Made in America, Bryson tells the story of how American arose out of the English language, and along the way, de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how they were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up - as well as exposing the true origins of the words G-string, blockbuster, poker and snafu. 'A tremendously sassy work, full of zip, pizzazz and all those other great American qualities' Will Self, Independent on Sunday

      Made in America1995
      3,7