Media Release -- The Cartoon Art Museum hosts renowned author Peter F. Neumeyer on Saturday, October 15, 2011 as he discusses his new book, Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer. Gorey and Neumeyer collaborated on three children's books, but their personal correspondence—never before published—discusses subjects as wide-ranging as Jorge Luis Borges's writings to art theory to a pancake recipe. This event is free and open to the public.
Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer:
•• Provides an intimate portrait of Gorey, a man often mischaracterized as macabre. Here he shows himself to be gentle, humble, and brilliant—as well as hilarious.
•• Includes Gorey's colorfully illustrated envelopes, as well as sketches for books, finished illustrations, and original manuscripts. ••"Enchanting and witty and sparkling with intellectual banter, the book illustrates their artistic process and stands as a moving memoir of friendship." —Vanity Fair
•• One of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Books for Fall 2011 (Literary Essays & Criticism category) 8 0 0 -2 2 7- 1 4 2 8 Box 8 0 8 02 2 P e taluma CA 94975
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Announcing . . . Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer Edited by Peter F. Neumeyer 256 pages, 63/4 x 83/4 in. Hardcover, Smyth-sewn, with jacket 75 letters, 38 illustrated envelopes, over 60 postcards and illustrations $35.00 US ($38.95 Canada) ISBN 978-0-7649-5947-9 About the Writers Edward St. John Gorey (1925–2000) is famous for the bounty of books he wrote and illustrated, featuring his distinctive humor and astonishingly detailed crosshatch ink drawings. Gorey also was a playwright, an award-winning set and costume designer, and the creator of the animated introduction to the PBS series Mystery!
Peter F. Neumeyer (b. 1929) is the author, editor, or translator of more than a dozen books of prose and poetry for children and adults. His collaborations with Edward Gorey include Donald and the . . . , Donald Has a Difficulty, and Why We Have Day and Night. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. Reviewers For more information, please contact: Stephanie King, Associate Publisher: stephaniek@pomegranate.com; 800-227-1428 x 119
To view sample pages, visit: www.pomegranate.com/a197.html You know far more about me than anyone else in the world. —EG to PN Your letters . . . your existence has made something of this world that [it] hadn't the possibility of before. —PN to EG
