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Highs and Lows
A collection of illustrations by world-renowned cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé.
Jean-Jacques Sempé
Editions:
Price: USD$29.95
300 points- Hardback
- English
- 270 x 220 mm, 10 5/8 x 8 5/8 in
- 112 pp
- 190 black and white illustrations
- ISBN-13: 9780714846736
- ISBN-10: 0714846732
- The sixth collection of classic illustrations and cartoons by Sempé (b.1932) to be published by Phaidon
- In Highs and Lows, Sempé deals with the contrasts, contradictions and absurdities of modern urban life
- Originally published in France in 1970 and now available to an English-speaking audience for the first time
- Sempe's laconic, perfectly judged texts were translated by Anthea Bell, who helped bring Asterix the Gaul to the English-speaking world
- Will appeal to cartoon connoisseurs and Francophiles as well as the general public
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