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PublisherpowerHouse Books

ISBN-101576875407

ISBN-139781576875407

eBay Product ID (ePID)80502832

Product Key Features

Book TitleTales of Woe

Number of Pages199 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMedia Studies, General, Popular Culture

Publication Year2010

IllustratorYes

GenrePhilosophy, Social Science

AuthorJohn. Reed

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight15.3 Oz

Item Length7.1 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2011-280719

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal128/.4

SynopsisTrue stories of totally undeserved suffering. Spectacularly depressing. Nobody gets their just deserts. Crushing defeats. No happy endings. Abject misery. Pointless, endless grief. No lessons of temperance or moderation. No saving grace. No divine intervention. No salvation. Sin, suffering, redemption. That's the movie, that's the front page news, that's the story of popular culture--of American culture. A ray of hope. A comeuppance. An all-for-the-best. Makes it easier to deal with the world's misery--to know that there's a reason behind it, that it'll always work out in the end, that people get what they deserve. The fact: sometimes people suffer for no reason. No sin, no redemption--just suffering, suffering, suffering. Tales of Woe compiles today's most awful narratives of human wretchedness. This is not Hollywood catharsis (someone overcomes something and the viewer is uplifted), this is the katharsis of Ancient Greece: you watch people suffer horribly, and then feel better about your own life. Tales of Woe tells stories of murder, accident, depravity, cruelty, and senseless unhappiness: and all true. The Tales: strange, unexpected, morbidly enticing. Told straight--with elegance, restraint, and simplicity. The design: a one-of-kind white text on black paper, fluidly readable, and coupled with fifty pages of full-color art., Tales of Woe compiles today's most awful and true narratives of human wretchedness in a unique design., Sometimes people suffer for no reason. There's no sin, no redemption - just suffering and misery. These spectacularly depressing true stories of totally undeserved suffering are told with elegance, restraint and simplicity. Murder, accidents, depravity, cruelty and senseless unhappiness are met with no happy endings, abject misery and pointless, endless grief. Tales of Woe delivers today's most awful narratives of human wretchedness, and evokes catharsis that can't be matched. Designed in a one-of-a-kind white text on black paper with 50 pages of full-colour art., True stories of totally undeserved suffering. Spectacularly depressing. Nobody gets their just deserts. Crushing defeats. No happy endings. Abject misery. Pointless, endless grief. No lessons of temperance or moderation. No saving grace. No divine intervention. No salvation. Sin, suffering, redemption. That's the movie, that's the front page news, that's the story of popular culture-of American culture. A ray of hope. A comeuppance. An all-for-the-best. Makes it easier to deal with the world's misery-to know that there's a reason behind it, that it'll always work out in the end, that people get what they deserve. The fact: sometimes people suffer for no reason. No sin, no redemption-just suffering, suffering, suffering. Tales of Woe compiles today's most awful narratives of human wretchedness. This is not Hollywood catharsis (someone overcomes something and the viewer is uplifted), this is the katharsis of Ancient Greece: you watch people suffer horribly, and then feel better about your own life. Tales of Woe tells stories of murder, accident, depravity, cruelty, and senseless unhappiness: and all true. The Tales: strange, unexpected, morbidly enticing. Told straight-with elegance, restraint, and simplicity. The design: a one-of-kind white text on black paper, fluidly readable, and coupled with fifty pages of full-color art.

LC Classification NumberBS105.S79