Fiction
And the Pursuit of Happiness
A Penguin Press illustrated book in which Maira Kalman travels through American democracy after the 2008 election, visiting Monticello, the Supreme Court, and a Vermont town meeting. The paintings are the main event; the text is observational, meandering, and quietly patriotic. The production is handsome, with color plates throughout and the thick paper that Penguin Press uses when it wants a book to feel like an object. Penguin Press printed it on heavy stock because the paintings need the support. Ideal reader: the citizen who wants a civics lesson that looks like a sketchbook, or the illustrator who needs proof that essay and image can share a page.
$5.38
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Pittsburgh, PA
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