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In this tale of adventure, at once high-spirited and terrifying, set against the background of the West that Larry McMurtry has made his own, By Sorrow's River is an epic in its own right with an extraordinary young woman as its leading figure.
At the heart of this third volume of his Western saga remains the beautiful and determined Tasmin Berrybender, now married to the "Sin Killer" and mother to their young son, Monty, who, although Tasmin intends him to be an English gentleman like his grandfather, is at the moment living the childhood of a savage.
By Sorrow's River continues the Berrybender party's trail across the endless Great Plains of the West toward Santa Fe, where they intend, those who are lucky enough to survive the journey, to spend the winter. Along the way, Tasmin, whose husband, Jim Snow, has vanished off to scout ahead of them, falls in love with Pomp Charbonneau, only to see him killed by the ruthless commander of Spanish troops, while her father, Lord Berrybender, now reduced to limping along on one leg and a pair of crutches, increasingly makes a fool of himself by falling in love with his own mistress. They meet up with a vast cast of characters from the history of the West: Kit Carson, the famous scout; Le Partezon, the fearsome Sioux war chief; The Ear Taker, an Indian whose specialty is creeping up on people while they are asleep and slicing an ear off with a sharp knife; two aristocratic Frenchmen whose eccentric aim is to cross the Great Plains by hot air balloon; a party of slavers led by the cowardly but bloodthirsty Obregon; a band of raiding Pawnee; and many other astonishing characters who prove, once again, that the rolling, grassy plains are not, in fact, nearly as empty of life as they look. Most of what is there is dangerous and hostile, even when faced with Tasmin's remarkable, frosty sangfroid. She is one of the strongest and most interesting of Larry McMurtry's women characters, fairly resistant to shock, whether at bloodshed, the behavior of children, or sex, and at the center of this powerful and ambitious novel of the West.
Customer Reviews:
Not the Strongest in the Series.......2006-10-05
Although much fun to read, as were the first two books in the Berrybender Narratives, "By Sorrow's River" is the weakest link. Maybe because there is less action and more introspection, namely, willful, beautiful and impossible Tasmin Berrybender's increasinbly deep infatuation with Pomp Charbonneau, who seems indifferent to her considerable charms.
As we know from previous books, Tasmin impetuously married mountain man Jimmy Snow, "The Sin Killer," much feared by the Indians. Although he satisfies her on a very primal level and has already fathered a son by her, Jimmy is taciturn to the point of obsession, while Tasmin never shuts up. Jimmy is an unschooled frontiersman, while Tasmin is a cultured and spoiled upper-class Englishwoman. We know all this...it's old news. So why is it so annoying when she sets her sights and considerable will upon cultured and quiet Charbonneau? Maybe it's because he really doesn't want her, even up to and including her rash seduction, where she has to do just about everything herself (McMurtry is hilarious in this description, as he always is in this series). Or maybe she has become as tiresome to us as she has to most people around her.
At any rate, there are still plenty of gory deaths, outrageous selfish acts by Lord Berrybender, some unexpected weddings and couplings, and a new influx of Mexican characters who people a thriving trading post.
Still fun to read, but not the strongest in the series. Looking foward to "Folly and Glory," the next of the Narratives.
Addicted to an odd series.......2006-09-03
I was hooked on the Berrybender series because of the hysterical humor in Sin Killer, so I bought the other three books in the series. I'm reading the series as one long book, and I see no other way to read it. It is, after all, just one continuous story about the same characters on the same journey. It is as continuous as Lord of the Rings or Remembrance of Things Past, both of which were published as a series of separate books. In this regard it isn't like the Kushiel series by Jacqueline Carey, because the three books in that series can each stand alone and involve completely separate adventures, though with the same characters.
This, the third book in the four-book series, is not funny at all. Okay. I got hooked on the humor, and it's gone. But I'm still hooked on the characters, and in particular Tasmin Berrybender. Her stupid father I can do without. Her sisters play diminishing roles as the story unfolds. Her husband Jim Snow, Sin Killer, also has a diminishing role in this book. Pomp Charboneau is elevated to stardom, though he is a boring star, a man who doesn't really want to be alive, a man who will avoid Tasmin's advances almost all the time, but will submit passively to them when cornered. He's not much of a character.
One surprise star in this third book is Clam De Paty, the French journalist with the garish red pants. He has an adventure or two. Then there's a pair of lively and wealthy Mexican girls who are pretty interesting, and one is in love with young Kit Carson, one of Tasmin's conquests.
The terrifying Partezon becomes very human, and we are told what makes him tick. History proved him right. No wonder he was killing off all those white men. That was the Indians' only chance, and he was the only Indian in this book who knew it. But he peters out. So does Lord Berrybender. Sometimes McMurtry's characters just peter out.
In Lord Berrybender's case, he doesn't seem like the same man who was introduced to us in Sin Killer. I don't recognize him in this book. Perhaps "continuity of character" isn't McMurtry's strongest suit in this series. He makes things happen to his characters, and the characters don't seem to be who they started out as. I suspect it is a weakness in the writing, but nobody's perfect. This series is tremendous.
Pomp is a disturbing character. Why is he avoiding Tasmin? We kind of think it is because she's married to his buddy. But if that is the case, why is he having sex with her? I don't get Pomp. I think he's being painted as a broken man, broken by his removal to Europe after growing up in the American frontier. If that is the whole Pomp story, that he is an illustration of a man who was broken by civilization, then I think it is a poor choice on the author's part. I don't think people break like that. I don't think that they become apathetic vegetables because of that. It's a weakness of the story. Yay wilderness, boo civilization. Whatever. I don't buy it.
This author is far more cold blooded than most. He constantly kills off his main characters. It reminds me of Dungeons and Dragons, where you can be playing with a character for months, and then he's dead, and that's that. The mortality rate on this Berrybender excursion is just a little higher than the mortality rate among terminal AIDS patients too weak to stand.
The mortality rate forces this to be a comedy, because nobody in his right mind would continue this journey, as Berrybender does, for sport, after all of this tragedy. This has to be a comedy because one of Berrybender's children disappeared, died, and was never remarked again, like the child was nothing. That happened in an earlier book. Remember, he had brought two of his "numbered" children with him, one was found as a silent stowaway, and the other was never heard from again. This has to be a comedy, no? Why else would nobody in the family give a damn that baby sibling is missing, abandoned, and dead?
This series walks a very queer line between comedy and adventure. But when a series has me, it has me.
Tasmin Shows Her Berrybender Roots.......2006-07-04
If you haven't read either The Sin Killer or The Wandering Hill, I suggest you read at least The Sin Killer to get a sense of the characters before reading this book. Otherwise, this will probably seem like a dull two star book.
By Sorrow's River is a reference to the way that Pomp Charbonneau was described by his mother, Sacagawea - the famous guide for Lewis and Clark, when he was born. In this series, Pomp serves to make the point that Larry McMurtry centers this series on: The Old World is done and you'd better adapt to the new. Pomp, although an American who is half Native American, was raised in Europe and can appreciate both cultures. Pomp clearly favors the Wilderness of the West.
At the end of The Wandering Hill, Pomp was seriously wounded in an attack. Only careful surgery and insistent nursing kept him alive to reach this story. Tasmin had been falling in love with Pomp in The Wandering Hill, but now she determines to have her way with Pomp whether or not her husband, Jim Snow (the Sin Killer), is around. Tasmin's pursuit of Pomp is the main story line for By Sorrow's River.
Monty, Tasmin's and Jim's son, and the other two boys continue to grow nicely. Little Onion, Jim's remaining Native American wife, continues to serve as unpaid nanny while Tasmin nurses her hungry son.
Overall, the women show that they are the stronger sex and gain a stronger hand in their battles of the sexes with the men.
The comic relief in this story is the arrival of two journalists who bring a hot air balloon with them. On the sinister side, the Partezon is once again involved in the story in a threatening way while the travelers learn about the Ear Taker the hard way. The balance of power among the whites and the Native Americans shift was a smallpox epidemic devastates some of the tribes.
The travelers leave the relative security and comfort of the trading post near the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers to travel toward Santa Fe across parched lands to face new dangers.
The book ends on a tragic note as fate seems to once again take a hand on determining who will live and who will die on the frontier.
I enjoyed this book more than The Wandering Hill, but I would have liked the story if it had less of Tasmin's obsession with controlling men.
Romance, Blood, and Myth.......2005-11-23
By Sorrow's River is the third of four novels in a series detailing the adventures of the rich, aristocratic, and eccentric Berrybender family--terribly out of place in the raw American West--traveling up the Missouri River and then across the endless Great Plains toward Santa Fe. The time is the early 1830s, and the rugged frontier they have come to see is in turn magnificent and brutally hostile. The naive English troup encounters numerous memorable characters, such as the trappers Jim Bridger, Tom Fitzpatrick, and Kit Carson, the painter George Catlin, a fearsome Sioux war chief named Partezon, and an assortment of other quirky adventurers. The story is part unromanticized view of old West and part satire of the English class system, with the pompous Lord Berrybender dragging his family and retainers through one dangerous situation after another while doggedly seeking out more game to hunt and kill. At once epic, comic, and tragic, the Berrybender narrative represents a pivotal decade in which the West was both won and lost and when random violence and natural disasters awaited all those who insisted on pushing west of the Missouri River.
At the core of the novels is the love triangle between beautiful, blunt, brash Tasmin Berrybender, her husband the ferocious frontiersman, Jim Snow, and the fur trapper Pomp Charbonneau. Tasmin is one of McMurtry's most memorable female characters, and her stormy relationship with her wandering husband is part bittersweet romance, part soap opera. I saw some similarities with the love triangle in Gone With the Wind: Tasmin is reminiscent of the feisty Scarlet O'Hara, Jim Snow shares Rhett Butler's sexual appeal and hint of danger, and Pomp-like the cerebral Ashley Wilkes-is a man of cool temperament that our heroine has difficulty rousing to passion.
McMurtry knows how to spin a great yarn, although I felt the characters in this series were more shalowly drawn than in some of his other novels. Nevertheless, I couldn't stop reading because I wanted to know what became of them. (And in typical McMurtry style, many of their fates are bizarre.) Many secondary characters are recognizable historical figures, but it's sometimes frustrating to not know where fact leaves off and fiction begins. I'm not sure why McMurtry didn't simply create some fictional names, rather than have real-world people meet historically inaccurate fates. For example, it's interesting to note that the real Scotsman, William Drummond Stewart, actually returned home (with a small herd of buffalo) in the late 1830s to be laird of his manor. He died in 1871, leaving the family estates to an illegitimate son whose mother was a Dallas saloon keeper. As for Pomp Charbonneau, who for a time is the focus of Tasmin's determined love, in real life he ended his days searching for gold in California, dying at age 61 en route to Montana.
Tasmin becomes difficult.......2005-07-11
In 1832, Lord Albany Berrybender chartered a steamboat to take him up the Missouri River on a hunting expedition. Albany is one of the richest aristocrats in England, and also a dissolute, selfish, old fool. Along for the ride are his wife Constance, six of their fourteen spoiled children, fifteen of nineteen servants, including a cellist and a botanist, an aging parrot named Prince Talleyrand, the staghound Tintamarre, and a gaggle of American talent hired to ease their way, including Toussaint Charbonneau, the guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition many years previous.
In BY SORROW'S RIVER, a year and two books later, Lord Berrybender has since lost a leg; his wife, two children, assorted servants, Prince Talleyrand, and Tintamarre are dead. Berrybender's eldest daughter, Tasmin has borne a child to her mountain man husband, Jim "Sin Killer" Snow, and is now pregnant with a second. Another daughter, Bess, takes up with a Ute brave, High Shoulders, and a third daughter, Mary, loses her virginity to the botanist, Piet Van Wely. Berrybender himself marries the cellist, Vicky Kennet, and gets her with child. And finally, after much aimless wandering in the second book of the series, THE WANDERING HILL, the fecund group is off to Santa Fe accompanied by a ragtag group of mountain men and hangers-on.
It's only in this book that the series really takes off for me, mostly due to the fact that its chief protagonist, Tasmin, is becoming engagingly difficult. Increasingly disenchanted with her husband, Tasmin casts lustful looks at Jean Baptiste "Pomp" Charbonneau, the son of Toussaint Charbonneau and Sacagawea born on Lewis and Clark's epic trek to the Pacific. Moreover, Tasmin has a soft spot in her heart for the young Kit Carson. Trouble is, Pomp has barely a prurient thought in his head, and Kit is too busy becoming a famous scout.
What makes BY SORROW'S RIVER particularly interesting are the historical characters that sprinkle the narrative: Carson, the elder and younger Charbonneaus, mountain men Jim Bridger, Hugh Glass, and Tom Fitzpatrick, and traders William and Charles Bent, who established Bent's Fort in present-day Colorado. Having said that, it's because author Larry McMurtry occasionally plays fast and loose with the historical record that I found this fictional narrative unreasonably irritating at times. When reading this book, keep in mind that Carson didn't marry (his third wife) Josefina Jaramillo until 1843, and Pomp Charbonneau died in 1866 at Innskip Station, OR. Does Larry's version represent careless research, or just unconscionable literary license?
With this third book in the series, the Berrybender saga is finally attaining some of those qualities of excellence that characterized, McMurtry's classic, LONESOME DOVE. Despite my reservations regarding the glaring historical inaccuracies, I just may immediately begin the fourth and final installment, FOLLY AND GLORY, without stopping to vary my reading fare. For the moment, I'm hooked.
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Slightly Sinful
Mary Balogh
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Meet the Bedwyns--six brothers and sisters--men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality....Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal...and where Alleyne Bedwyn, the passionate middle son, is cut off from his past--only to find his future with a sinfully beautiful woman he will risk everything to love.
As the fires of war raged around him, Lord Alleyne Bedwyn was thrown from his horse and left for dead--only to awaken in the bedchamber of a ladies' brothel. Suddenly the dark, handsome diplomat has no memory of who he is or how he got there--yet of one thing he is certain: The angel who nurses him back to health is the woman he vows to make his own. But like him, Rachel York is not who she seems. A lovely young woman caught up in a desperate circumstance, she must devise a scheme to regain her stolen fortune. The dashing soldier she rescued from near-death could be her savior in disguise. There is just one condition: she must pose as his wife--a masquerade that will embroil them in a sinful scandal, where a man and a woman court impropriety with each daring step...with every taboo kiss that can turn passionate strangers into the truest of lovers.
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Meet the Bedwyns—six brothers and sisters—men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality....
Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction... where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal... and where Alleyne Bedwyn, the passionate middle son, is cut off from his past—only to find his future with a sinfully beautiful woman he will risk everything to love.
As the fires of war raged around him, Lord Alleyne Bedwyn was thrown from his horse and left for dead—only to awaken in the bedchamber of a ladies' brothel. Suddenly the dark, handsome diplomat has no memory of who he is or how he got there—yet of one thing he is certain: The angel who nurses him back to health is the woman he vows to make his own.
But like him, Rachel York is not who she seems. A lovely young woman caught up in a desperate circumstance, she must devise a scheme to regain her stolen fortune. The dashing soldier she rescued from near-death could be her savior in disguise. There is just one condition: she must pose as his wife—a masquerade that will embroil them in a sinful scandal, where a man and a woman court impropriety with each daring step... with every taboo kiss that can turn passionate strangers into the truest of lovers.
Customer Reviews:
Slightly Good.......2007-08-12
A good story line with entertaining characters. Just a bit thin on the relationship between Alleyne and Rachel. And, without spoiling the plot, let me just say that their sexual relationship was rather cold.
Balogh's not big on originality within the series..........2007-06-16
Two words: Fake Marriage.
*smacks head* It's not quite a fake betrothal, but it's not all that different. So when I came to the part in this book where Alleyne and Rachel decide to pose as being married, I wanted to smack myself in the head. That makes, what, four or five books so far in this series where there is a a fake relationship? That's pushing it just way too far in my opinion, and it's hopelessly unoriginal. At times there's something to be said for some congruency when writing a series. It binds them together and offers that sort of parallel fate that can be interesting. But this isn't one of those times. When most of the books in a series share an almost exact plot hook, it gets real old real fast.
Aside from that, the thing I liked most in this book was the variety of characters. Most of the others have featured a very homogeneous set of societies best...even with several heroines not being quite up to snuff, they were still proper ladies. So I liked that in this book, four of the supporting cast were "painted ladies". They were boisterous, off-beat, and likable, and just a nice diversion from all the prim propriety of the beau monde. Plus there was Sergeant Strickland to add some more variety. And I like Rachel and Alleyne's romance. They were a sweet couple. The "plot" also worked for me for the most part, aside from the fake marriage bit.
I think if the fake marriage hadn't been part of the story, I would have enjoyed it quite a bit. I still did, but that aspect just annoyed me to death because of it's repetitiveness.
Love the Book.......2007-05-23
The book was wonderful, the continuity of the story held. I had read the others in the series and enjoyed the fact that there were no glaring mistakes. The story showed more of what it is like to be in a war, and a foreign country, and an amusing look at what it might have been like for women who were stronger than normally accepted.
Nice but ..........2007-05-12
Allyne Bedwyn is on a important message for the Duke of Welllington, when he shot and loses his memory. When he awakes, he finds himself in a brothel. Rachel York is young miss in a lot trouble. She lost her money and the money of her friends. Needing to work Rachel, her friends, and Jonathan head to Rachel's uncle in hope claiming money they need.
"Slightly Sinful" by Mary Balogh is the first book that I by this author, while it was okay this book just seem long and I wanted it to end.
Nice..........2007-05-01
I thought that this book was ok b/c well I don't like what all happens in this book. Yeah there are some great parts but it doesn't have the WOW factor. It isn't all that memorable to me. Out of all the Slightly series this is one os one of my least favorites.
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Balogh's Wonderfully Entertaining Bedwyn Family Series
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Balogh's Sligtly series features the half-dozen members of the Bedwyn family first met in A Summer to Remember
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The Ashen Thief.......2000-11-08
I got dissapointed with this book. the ashen knight was a very good book centered in the knighthood, but in this one they lost that focus, the furores chapter shouldn't be in a book about thiefs, should be more in an Ashen Anarchist.The first part about the medieval underworld is good, but they screw up the rest of the book with the furores section.
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- ESSENTIAL FOR BAKERS
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Bread: A Baker's Book of Techniques and Recipes
ASIN: 0470250062 |
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Volume 2 reviews the six basic doughs used to make bread figures, ribbons, flowers and much more and offers numerous examples of decorated breads and presentation pieces.
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ESSENTIAL FOR BAKERS.......2007-10-09
I first came by this book when I was a student of baking, pastry and baking technology. Having no money to buy it(it used to cost too much then for my student pocket) I borrowed it from the library and photocopied it. A few weeks ago finding that the price has dropped significantly I ordered it. So why would one buy a book (again) since one has it (even as a photocopy). Because it is so blessed good! As a matter of fact there is hardly any book like it in the market. 'BREAD' by Jeffrey Hamelmann is also a great book (better) but does not have the gloss pages or multitude of photographs as this one. The same goes for 'The taste of bread' by Calvell.
This book gives you a lot of information on the processes and methods of breadmaking. Each recipe is detailed and not all the methods are the same for all the breads as in other books. The book deals with poolish preparation and use, the straight method of bulk fermentation but in a way that makes tasty bread, Levain (Sourdough) breads, Viennoiserie (Brioche, milk bread etc. It also includes a large section on artistic bread decoration something that is rearly (almost never) included in baking books. But the real gem in the crown is the section on Croissants. You do not know proper croissant production unless you read it. Six different methods of producing croissants, from the straight method, to the slow rising method, to the levain method. Absolutely great. With this book and a little help from a French baker I worked with briefly, my croissants look and taste as if they came out of a traditional Paris bakery (I use the overnight rise method).
A few last details. This book is for professionals not home cooks (unless they are very experienced). It is actually part of a series that was designed to be a top quality bakery apprentice's book (unlike the unfortunate Reinhart books).
The book is in Metric and Formulas and uses somewhat large quantities.
There are colored photos throughout and they don't look as dated as another reviewer has said.
At this price it is a bargain for the proffessional and the apprentice.
Top Quality Bread Book.......2007-03-13
This is actually Volume Two in a series. The first volume is similar, of the same name, twice the price and out of print. This one is outstanding in that it contains a reasonable array of classic breads that are presented in an optimal format with beautiful color pictures, commentary and good organization. Although it may be a bit too detailed for the average home baker, if you follow the recipes and techniques exactly, you will get bread that looks like those shown in the pictures. The weakness is that it doesn't always explain how to achieve these results in a hoome environment. For instance, to achieve the shiny patina of the breads shown on the cover you need to inject steam at the start of the baking. Although there are a number of ways to do this at home, none are explained here (You can pre steam the loaf in a roaster in advance). Other techniques are available, but not here, for producing large irregular holes, a lasting crust, etc. For my taste, instead of a book about how to make such and such kind of bread, I would have rather had a book about how to achieve certain textures and patinas in bread baking in general. Nevertheless this is an outstanding book well worth the price, possibly the best on the market!
Cuisinsky, amateur bread baker out of supermarket self defense
Book for the professional baker.......2006-10-12
I found this book excellent, with lots of information about developing flavours and aromas. This book has been written for the professional baker working in a small bakery. Recipes range in size from around 16 kg of dough (not flour) for breads where several different shapes and sizes are scaled off the one mix, to smaller quantities for brioches, croissants etc. There are lots of descriptions for various shapes and sizes of bread from different regions, but using the 3 or 4 basic dough types.Therefore you can make say two larger basic doughs and produce easily 2 dozen varieties.
Review by Professional Baker.......2005-10-23
I was a little disappointed with the presentation of the recipes. They appear to be written for use by a large-scale bakery, i.e. for the production of "dozens" of loaves, making it difficult to produce a small number of baked items. Armed with a calculator, one has to reduce each recipe many times in order to do that.And there are sometimes directions left out as well. Definitely NOT a book for the amateur baker! The photos appear to be taken in the 1960's, and pictures of final products are not very appetising.
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Learn the language of techniques such as woodcut and lithograph, and art period terms such as Baroque and Art Deco, and the answers to these questions and more:
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Insider tips on valuating, buying, and selling fine art prints–along with expert advice on current market trends.
A one-of-a-kind resource on how to build and care for a collection, the history of prints and printmaking techniques, a guide to online sources, galleries, and publications.
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Witty, Concise, and Extremely Informative!.......2006-02-22
Leila Lyons' book is an interesting and informative explanation on the world of antique orginal prints. Having known nothing about antique prints before, I felt like this book has well prepared me for buying and collecting antique prints. The book talks not only about the various print processes, artistic movements, and print values, it also provides the reader with most invaluable advice - to collect only what you love. I find this emphasis on personal interest and hobby to be a refreshing take on the otherwise exclusive antique industry, and Ms. Lyons herself gives examples of prints costing as little as $27 to as much as $27,000, so that there are prints at every price range, making them accessible to many people.
Her writing style is refreshing as well, with little quips of humor and charming anecdotes - I read this in a single sitting, and felt compelled to learn more about antique prints, and to go looking for antique prints myself.
A fascinating introduction to the world of antique prints.......2006-01-14
I became interested in collecting prints knowing relatively little about the market or why original antique prints were relevant in the art world. This book -- a clear, comprehensive, and fun overview of printmaking processes, periods, and artists -- provided me with the knowledge and I confidence I needed to begin my own collection. Now I can approach an auction, a flea market, or a gallery knowing what questions to find an original, not a reproduction, and one worth the money I pay for it. By reading this book, I've been able to develop what Ms. Lyons calls the "educated eye." My educated eye helps me to select prints not only for their aesthetic value, but also for their intrinsic value. Even if you aren't a serious collecter, I would recommend this book to anyone interested in history and the visual arts. You can learn a good deal about the artwork that essentially served as the pre-industrial revolution photograph; long before we could snap a picture or google images, artists were painstakingly engraving images of species, places and people, to share with the world.
Aside from its fascinating material, the book is well organized, easy to follow, comprehensive, and even funny. I highly recommend it!
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Alda Ellis shares her best ideas for outdoor décor and open-air entertaining throughout every season. Gorgeous photographs of Alda's own porch and simple instructions make these stunning spaces easy to recreate in your own home.
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Calling All Southern Ladies.......2006-02-24
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Edited by Lars Muller.
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this is excellent!.......2001-03-07
A good introduction to Muller-Brockmanns work, the book takes us from his very early works to later exhibitions and poster design. It even mentions 'Grid Systems', which I am a firm disciple of. Graphic Design is a subject of which to have strong oppionions and Lars Muller has just that. I enjoyed his comments in the preface which were valid and sound. All in all an important walk through past design, which should stay contemparay for times to come.
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Gil Evans: Out of the Cool: His Life and Music
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Book Description
Upon Gil Evans’s death in 1988, Gary Giddins wrote, “Many considered him the greatest living American composer, period.” After his early years in California, Evans settled in New York City in 1946, where his apartment became a meeting ground for the greatest jazz innovators. The result was the “Birth of the Cool” scores, Evans’s four-decade-long collaboration with Miles Davis, and a host of brilliant records, both with Davis and with his own ensembles. Written with the cooperation of Evans’s friends, colleagues, and family,
Gil Evans: Out of the Cool is an authoritative portrait.
Customer Reviews:
First-rate job.......2001-11-02
I read the manuscript before the book was published, and Stephanie has done a miraculous job. Gil Evans was an extremely private person, and there were so many things about his life that were unknown or mysterious (nobody is even sure what his name is) until Stepanie started compiling her research. This book is filled with little-known information about his early life, and the photos she has discovered are amazing. She has found long-forgotten correspondense between Evans and his friend Pete Carpenter, and has interviewed people who have never spoken about Gil before in print. If you have any interest in 20th century jazz ensemble music, this book is invaluable.
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