Monsieur Lambert

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Classic graphic novel with text and pictures by Jean-Jacques Sempé

Written and illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempé

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Price: USD$14.95

150 points

Specifications

Hardback
English
220 x 175 mm, 8 5/8 x 6 7/8 in
64 pp
55 black and white illustrations
ISBN-13: 9780714846231
ISBN-10: 0714846236

Overview

A gentle and unmistakably French graphic novel with text and pictures by Jean-Jacques Sempé
A glimpse of the everyday lives and secret passions of the regulars in a small Parisian bistro captured perfectly through Sempé's perceptive illustrations and the finely judged translation provided by Anthea Bell
When Monsieur Lambert does not turn up for lunch at his usual time, the other regulars speculate that he must have met a woman. The diners start discussing women they have loved and lost, thereby revealing unexpected facets of their lives and personalities
The restaurant and its regulars are vividly brought to life in a series of drawings which, together with handwritten dialogue bubbling in a laconic narrative, display Sempé's signature unerring eye and ear for the telling details of human behaviour
Translated from the French by award-winning translator Anthea Bell
A classic, first published in 1965, is now available in English for the first time

About the author(s)

Jean-Jacques Sempé (b.1932) is one of the world's most successful illustrators and cartoonists. He is the illustrator of the classic children's-book character, Nicholas, and author of a collection of some thirty albums of his cartoons and graphic novels, all published or to be published by Phaidon. His world-renowned illustrations and cartoons are featured on the cover of the New Yorker and in Paris Match.