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 book, his lovers and couples prove it every time. Sempe's people live in a world that is not necessarily easy for lovers. (After all, out of 2000 possible lovers, how do you find the ideal one?) But as they struggle to find each other nevertheless, they often discover, like the couple dancing alone to the strains of a full-piece orchestra in their own backyard, that "things seem to sort themselves out."
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The great ideal of the grand and lasting passion smiles down on the bumbling solitude of Sempe's lovers and mates who fight, scold, daydream, protect themselves with envelopes of self-importance. . . . He is the master of observed comic detail. . . .
--EDWARD KOREN, from the Introduction
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Jean-Jacques Sempe is the author of Displays of Affection. His drawings have appeared in numerous books in France--with the sales of over 1 million copies. His work appears regularly on the cover of The New Yorker. Sempe is a jazz fanatic.
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lovely little book,
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Lovely little collection of Sempe's comics on relationships. Love it! Impressed again by Sempe's keen observtion on the ironies of every day life.
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The most wonderful collection of illustrations by Sempe.,
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The most wonderful collection fo illustrations by Sempe
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