Genius Writers (Genius Playing Cards)

George, Marcel

 
9781786274977: Genius Writers (Genius Playing Cards)
ISBN 10: 1786274973 ISBN 13: 9781786274977
Verlag: Laurence King Publishing, 2019

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Add a touch of class to your poker table with some of the most exciting literary figures of the 20th and 21st centuries. Fifty-four writers have been chosen from the following categories: Modern, Mid-Century, Postmodern, Contemporary. Marcel George's stunning watercolour portraits of writers of fiction – including Samuel Beckett, Doris Lessing, Roberto Bolaño and Zadie Smith – ensure that even if you don't win you're in good company.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marcel George (Illustrator)
Marcel George is a London-based illustrator specializing in watercolour illustrations. He has produced work for clients such as the Financial Times, Esquire and the Wellcome Trust.

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A set of playing cards featuring portraits of famous writers from the last 100 yearsAdd a touch of class to your poker table with Genius Writers, featuring some of the most exciting literary figures of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Fifty–four writers from the last 100 years have been chosen from the following periods: Modern, Mid–Century, Postmodern, Contemporary. Marcel George's stunning watercolour portraits of writers of fiction ensure that even if you don't win, you're in good company. Genius Writers can be used in exactly the same way as regular playing cards. Each suit features a group of writers from history with numbers and court cards, including two jokers.

The following periods:

Modern
James Joyce
William Faulkner
George Orwell
Colette
Thomas Mann
Katherine Mansfield
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gertrude Stein
Marcel Proust
Ernest Hemingway
Franz Kafka
Virginia Woolf
Samuel Beckett

Mid–Century
Albert Camus
Ursula K. Le Guin
Chinua Achebe
Philip K. Dick
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Jean Rhys
Doris Lessing
Philip Roth
Marguerite Duras
Raymond Chandler
Jack Kerouac
Clarice Lispector
John Updike

Postmodern
Gabriel García Márquez
Italo Calvino
Maya Angelou
Günter Grass
Susan Sontag
J.M. Coetzee
Milan Kundera
Haruki Murakami
David Foster Wallace
Don DeLillo
Roberto Bolaño
Toni Morrison
Thomas Pynchon

Contemporary
Hilary Mantel
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Orhan Pamuk
Lydia Davis
Michel Houellebecq
Jonathan Franzen
Karl Ove Knausgard
Joan Didion
J.K. Rowling
Alice Munro
Zadie Smith
Elena Ferrante
Margaret Atwood

The Jokers
Jorge Luis Borges
Vladamir Nabokov

Other Genius decks include:
Genius Music (Genius Playing Cards)
Genius Art (Genius Playing Cards)

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Verlag
Laurence King Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1786274973
ISBN 13 
9781786274977
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Anzahl der Seiten
55
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