The Secondary Colors: Three Essays

by Alexander Theroux

Book Overview

A new and avidly awaited collection, this follow-up to Theroux's "The Primary Colors" explores the secondary colors--orange, purple, and green--by way of literature, music, art, poetry, linguistics, sports, religion, food, science, botany, movies, fable, anecdote, and no end of satire and strong opinion.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805044582
• ISBN13: 9780805044584
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.7" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

A Whitmanesque catalogue on speed.

This is an amazing book, which contains everything you'd ever want to know about the three secondary colors, their history and associations. How could anyone have written it? How could anyone know, have found and collected so much? Is there a literary allusion to any one of the colors Theroux has missed? I doubt it. My only explanation: Alexander Theroux must be God. The stylistic brilliance supports that answer.