The Customer is Always Wrong by Mimi Pond (English) Hardcover Book

Description: The Customer is Always Wrong by Mimi Pond The Customer is Always Wrong is the continuing saga of a young naive artist working in a restaurant of drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The Customer is Always Wrong is the continuing saga of a young naive artist working in a restaurant of drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. Oakland in the late seventies is a scuzzy, low-rent warzone and Mimi Pond folds the tales of the sleaze-ball characters that sur- round her into her workaday waitressing life. Outrageous and loving tributes and takedowns of her co-workers and satellites of the Imperial Cafe create a snapshot of a time in Mimi s life where she encounters who she is, and who she is not. Told in the same brash yet earnest style as her previous memoir Over Easy, Pond s storytelling gifts have never been stronger than in this epic, comedic novel. She drops readers right back at the Imperial with its great coffee and depraved cast, where things only get worse for the addicts and alcoholics surrounding her while her career as a cartoonist starts to take off. Notes The continuing saga of a young naive artist working in a restaurant filled with drunks, thieves, junkies and creeps. Author Biography Mimi pond started her career as a cartoonist at the National Lampoon in the late 70s. In the years following, she wrote and illustrated five humour books and contributed regularly to dozens of national magazines and newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times. In 2014, she published the first part of her coming of age memoir, Over Easy. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband the painter Wayne White. She is now close friends with Monica Lewinsky. Review "Sharp and ambitious... If Ponds last book was a sitcom, The Customer is Always Wrong would be an HBO drama with a Sunday night time slot."--Jezebel "The sobering wake-up call to naive nostalgia... [The Customer Is Always Wrong offers] a look at the end of a wild ride, punctuated by deeply profound moments in a time that could swallow you whole."--San Francisco Chronicle "A book filled with ghosts... An Oakland that doesnt exist anymore, a culture that doesnt exist anymore, and people that dont exist anymore, in more ways than one. "--Hollywood Reporter "A charming, loosely autobiographical story of Ponds early years."--National Post Best of 2017 "Set in late 1970s Oakland, this comedic graphic novel from Over Easy author Pond follows a waitress named Madge whose career as a comic artist finally starts to take off."--Entertainment Weekly "Mimi Pond is a treasure, one we ignore at our own risk... Her latest book -- a thick, semi-autobiographical bildungsroman called The Customer Is Always Wrong -- might be her greatest work to date. Its a lengthy and detailed portrait of a young woman working at a restaurant in late-70s Oakland and the cast of characters around her -- some of them shady, some of them lovable, and all of them compelling. Ponds hand is confident and her figure work hops balletically across the page; her facial acting is simple, but searing."--Vulture Review Quote "Sharp and ambitious... If Ponds last book was a sitcom, The Customer is Always Wrong would be an HBO drama with a Sunday night time slot."-- Jezebel "The sobering wake-up call to naive nostalgia... [ The Customer Is Always Wrong offers] a look at the end of a wild ride, punctuated by deeply profound moments in a time that could swallow you whole."-- San Francisco Chronicle "A book filled with ghosts... An Oakland that doesnt exist anymore, a culture that doesnt exist anymore, and people that dont exist anymore, in more ways than one. "-- Hollywood Reporter "Set in late 1970s Oakland, this comedic graphic novel from Over Easy author Pond follows a waitress named Madge whose career as a comic artist finally starts to take off."-- Entertainment Weekly "Mimi Pond is a treasure, one we ignore at our own risk... Her latest book -- a thick, semi-autobiographical bildungsroman called The Customer Is Always Wrong -- might be her greatest work to date. Its a lengthy and detailed portrait of a young woman working at a restaurant in late-70s Oakland and the cast of characters around her -- some of them shady, some of them lovable, and all of them compelling. Ponds hand is confident and her figure work hops balletically across the page; her facial acting is simple, but searing."-- Vulture Details ISBN1770462821 Author Mimi Pond Pages 448 Year 2017 ISBN-10 1770462821 ISBN-13 9781770462823 Format Hardcover Media Book Publication Date 2017-08-08 Language English UK Release Date 2017-08-08 Imprint Drawn and Quarterly Place of Publication Montreal Country of Publication Canada Publisher Drawn and Quarterly DEWEY 741.5 Illustrations Colour illustrations throughout Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:145094362;

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