Displays of Affection

by Jean-Jacques Sempé

Book Overview

With pen and ink, and with gentle understanding, France's most acclaimed cartoonist explores the question of the delicate balance. Displays of Affection pictures love in cozy parlors, on a starry night, in chic apartments, on a windswept beach, on a wobbly bicycle. Close to 100 drawings and captions evoke tenderness, melancholy, skirmish, and triumph. "Vulnerability is la condition humaine," Sempe told The New York Times . In this funny and moving...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0894801945
• ISBN13: 9780894801945
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 4.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

The most wonderful collection of illustrations by Sempe.

The most wonderful collection fo illustrations by Sempe