| | TITLE | To Hell with the Ugly | IMPRINT | TamTam Books | PRICE US | $15.95 CDN $15.95 | ISBN | 9780966234664 TRADE | FORMAT | Pbk, 8.5 x 5.75 in., 200 pgs, illustrated throughout. | CATALOG | SPRING 2012 p. 47 | DISTRIBUTOR | D.A.P. | PUB DATE | 2/29/2012 | STATUS | Active | STOCK | In stock |
| "Taking a smack on the head is nothing. Even being drugged twice during the course of the same evening is something a guy can live with. But stepping outside for a bit of fresh air and then all of a sudden coming to in your birthday suit in a room with a naked woman, well I'd say that's when things started to get weird. As for what happened next…" —Excerpted from To Hell with the Ugly. | NEW & FORTHCOMING By Léon Genonceaux. Introduction and translation by Iain White. ATLAS PRESS By Georges Perec, Michèle Audin, Marcel Bénabou, Jacques Bens, Paul Braffort, François Caradec, Frédéric Forte, Paul Fournel, Michelle Grangaud, Jacques Jouet, Etienne Lécroart, Daniel Levin Becker, Harry Mathews, Ian Monk, Hervé Le Tellier, Jacques Roubaud. Introduction by Alastair Brotchie. Translation by John Sturrock, Harry Mathews, Ian Monk. ATLAS PRESS By Anthony Hope. Illustrated by Mireille Fauchon. FOUR CORNERS BOOKS By Gustave Flaubert. Illustrated by Marc-Camille Chaimowicz. Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. FOUR CORNERS BOOKS | |
|   |   | To Hell with the UglyEt on Tuera Tous Les AffreuxBy Boris Vian. Translated and Introduction by Paul Knobloch. Drawings by Jessica Minckley.First published in French in 1948, To Hell with the Ugly saw Boris Vian's noir-novelist pseudonym Vernon Sullivan take on Vian's own burlesque pop sensibilities. An erotic crime novel with science fiction tendencies, Sullivan's third outing is described by its translator as "a pornographic Hardy Boys novel set on the Island of Dr. Moreau to a be-bop soundtrack." To Hell with the Ugly recounts the tale of Rock Bailey, a dashing 19-year-old lad determined to hold onto his virginity amidst the postwar jazz-club nightlife of Los Angeles-a resolution challenged by the machinations of the demented Doctor Markus Schutz, who has decided to breed beautiful human beings and found a colony in which ugliness is a genetic crime. Vian's brutal depictions of American race relations in his previous Sullivan novels here give way to a frenetic fantasy of eugenics and uniformity-a parodic anticipation of the cosmetic surgery that was to rule Hollywood over the coming decades, as well as a comic-book reflection on Nazi Germany's visions of a master race. With the novel's breathless domino tumble of fist fights, car chases, kidnappings, and murders, Vian here set out to out-Hollywood Hollywood, serving up a narrative cocktail of Raymond Chandler, H.G.Wells, Brave New World and Barbarella. | |
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