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CAROL LAY'S ILLITERATURE
LAY, CAROL
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
From the Underground era to THE SIMPSONS comic book to her graphic novel THE BIG SKINNY, Carol Lay
has been writing and drawing amazing stories for years. Her Story Minute strip, which gained a devoted
following while appearing on Salon.com, is collected here for the first time.
HUMOUR 1ST PRINTING 7500
BOOM! STUDIOS 112 PAGES
9781608862825
$18.99 TP Original
NOVEMBER 2012
CEZANNE: A LIFE
DANCHEV, ALEX
Alex Danchev, with brisk intellect, rich documentation, and eighty color illustrations, tells the story of an artist
who, during his lifetime, was considered a madman, a barbarian, and a revolutionary. Beginning with the restless
teenager from Aix, Danchev carries us through the trials of a painter who believed that art must be an expression
of temperament but who was tormented by self-doubt; whose work sold to no one outside his immediate circle
until late into his thirties; who fiercely maintained the revolutionary belief that "to paint from nature is not to copy
an object; it is to represent its sensations." And Danchev shows us how the implications of this belief became the
obsession of many other artists and writers, from Matisse to Samuel Beckett. The book delivers not only the
fascinating life of this visionary artist and remarkable man but a complete assessment of his ongoing influence in
the artistic imagination of our own time.
ART/BIOGRAPHY 1ST PRINTING 35,000
PANTHEON 544 PAGES
9780307377074
$46.00 HC
OCTOBER 2012
CHANEL BONFIRE
LAWLESS, WENDY
Georgann Rea didn’t bake cookies or go to PTA meetings; she wore a mink coat and always had a lit Dunhill
plugged into her cigarette holder. She had slept with too many men, and some women, and she didn’t like dogs
or children. Georgann had the ice queen beauty of a Hitchcock heroine and the cold heart to match. In this
evocative, darkly humorous memoir, Wendy deftly charts the highs and lows of growing up with her younger
sister in the shadow of an unstable, fabulously neglectful mother. Georgann, a real-life Holly Golightly who
constantly reinvents herself as she trades up from trailer-park to penthouse, suffers multiple nervous
breakdowns and suicide attempts, while Wendy tries to hide the cracks in their fractured family from the rest of
the world.
BIOGRAPHY 1ST PRINTING 50,000
GALLERY 304 PAGES
9781451675368
$28.99 HC
JANUARY 2013
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