The Curious Sofa: A Pornographic Work by Ogdred Weary
by:
Edward Gorey (author)
Gorey’s naughty, hilarious travesty of lust, now reissued in a special gift edition. “A master of the genre of graphic storytelling and a brilliant draftsman” (New York Times Book Review).
Gorey’s naughty, hilarious travesty of lust, now reissued in a special gift edition. “A master of the genre of graphic storytelling and a brilliant draftsman” (New York Times Book Review).
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780151003075 (0151003076)
Publish date: September 15th 1997
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 64
Edition language: English
Category:
Childrens,
Humor,
Funny,
Adult Fiction,
Art,
Picture Books,
Horror,
Short Stories,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics
The literary equivalent of Gypsy Rose Lee's strip tease. No doubt the most sex-per-page of any book yet remains appropriate for readers of all ages. "But is it sex positive?" I ask myself. I think not in the end, but others may differ. I amused myself by trying to imagine making a film of it. I w...
Hilarious misdirection. Gorey's signature style suits the form well.
Books Read in the Past:It's sad in a way that Gorey's books are now all attributed to Gorey. This one was written, as the cover still indicates, by Ogdred Weary. Fun with language, including peculiar anagrammatic pseudonyms, was half the fun of some of Gorey's work.The present volume is pornographic...
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