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The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master
of macabre nonsense.
From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest,
Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little
books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the
works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even
call him the Grandfather of Goth.
But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books... more...
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From the preface by SF legend Bruce Sterling:
"Dery...brandishes a Diogenes lantern as the the smoke thickens
on every side. ... Beset with Google erudition, [these essays]
tackle a dizzying set of topics--even within the essays, within
the very sentences, there are dizzying arrays of topics. ...
He's very good at going into areas of culture you wouldn't care
to visit yourself, and performing autopsies. He assesses... more...
Leading us through millennial America, from mainstream culture to
the pop underground, the author delivers his thesis--that phenomena
such as Disney, Nike, and teenage tribalism, are expressions of a
broad-based social anxiety and that the reasons for the anxiety are
both real and imagined.