Instant Lives Author:Howard Moss Nearly fifty years ago, two masters of their mediums - Howard Moss of the satirical mot juste, Edward Gorey of the bleakly hilarious pen-and-ink - discovered the perfect form on which to marry their individual gifts: irreverent invented biographies. — The National Book Award-winning poet and iconic American artist collaborated to craft devilishly... more » delightful vignettes and illustrations of great composers, painters, performers, authors and poets, such as Emily Dickinson, James Joyce, Jane Austin, and Oscar Wilde.
Elegant and irreverent, erudite and absurd, Instant Lives will make readers laught out loud today just as they did when this lovingly ludicrous collection was first published. « less