Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell: A Story We All Really Need Now More Than Ever

by Bruce Eric Kaplan

Overview

One Sunday afternoon, an ordinary couple named Edmund and Rosemary decide to go for a walk in their Brooklyn neighborhood. Within moments, they are plunged into a wonderful, nerve-racking, hilarious, unique adventure that begins with a cell phone and ends in a jungle halfway around the world.

In Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell, famed New Yorker cartoonist Bruce Eric Kaplan uses his trademark incisive wit to explore what it is that prevents us from seeing all that we have. By turns wickedly funny and oddly touching, this provocative and ultimately hopeful picture book for adults will appeal to anyone who has ever been stuck in traffic or, more to the point, stuck inside themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416556466
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	05/22/2007
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Bruce Eric Kaplan, known for his distinctive, off-beat single-panel cartoons, has been a New Yorker cartoonist for more than fifteen years. He is also a television writer and was an executive producer for the acclaimed HBO series Six Feet Under, as well as a writer on Seinfeld (funnily enough, one of his most well-known episodes is one where Elaine becomes increasingly frustrated over what she takes to be an utterly nonsensical New Yorker cartoon). He has authored and illustrated seven adult titles including the cult classic The Cat That Changed My Life; the collections I Love You, I Hate You, I’m Hungry; No One You Know; and This Is a Bad Time; and three titles featuring the wonderfully neurotic Brooklyn couple Edmund and Rosemary: Every Person on the Planet, Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell, and Everything Is Going to Be Okay. Bruce is also the author and illustrator of four picture books: Monsters Eat Whiny Children, Cousin Irv from Mars, Meaniehead, and Someone Farted. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.

Read an Excerpt

Knowing without a doubt

that they were in Hell

sometimes made Edmund and

Rosemary a little edgy.

Editorial Reviews

"Brilliant."

— The Washington Post

"Mordantly funny."

— Vanity Fair

"A cartoonist whose work comes from the painfully familiar."

— Esquire

"Hilarious."

— Star-Tribune (Minneapolis)

"Wittily dry."

— Los Angeles Times

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