- Gebundene Ausgabe: 120 Seiten
- Verlag: Virgin Books (9. März 2010)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1905264178
- ISBN-13: 978-1905264179
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,6 x 20,3 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 891.256 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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“Carlip’s curriculum vitae reads like a Cliffsnotes version of american popular culture.” —The New York Times
"I wish I had thought of this idea —I'm so jealous. I don't know which is better —seeing the actual shopping lists or seeing Hillary in disguise. This book is a real find. Add it to your shopping list. It's on mine, right under Glue Wands and Greens for Dusty." —Amy Sedaris
Kurzbeschreibung
A comic original in the tradition of Tracey ullman and lily Tomlin—with cindy Sherman’s eye— Hillary carlip creates america’s most unforgettable grocery shoppers.
It’s happened to all of us—we find, tucked away in the corner of our shopping cart, someone’s discarded grocery list. It first happened to Hillary Carlip when she was a teenager, and she’s been wondering to whom the lists belonged ever since. Who’s the person buying “Leche, Panpers, and Chanpu”? Or “Whole milk, heavy cream, Ice cream, cheese, and Gas-Ex (!!!)”? Why would someone need to write down “Coors and Oreos” on a matchbook cover—couldn’t he just remember those two items? And what’s the person like who scrawled their list on a PROZAC notepad?
Taking her clues from the items listed, the types of paper written on, the handwriting, and even misspellings (“Aunt Spray”), Hillary saw that each list—at once mundane and personal—offered an intimate peek into a complete stranger’s life. She picked twenty-six lists and imagined who the shoppers might be. She next transformed herself into all twenty-six people, one by one, literally stepping into each character—all ages, genders, and ethnicities—with hair, make-up, outfits, and one Fu Manchu. Photographer Barbara Green then captured unforgettable images of Hillary portraying these shoppers at their neighborhood markets. Hillary came to love these characters, so her accompanying stories for each are as poignant and hilarious as the photographs. She brings to life richly imagined inner worlds, including one for macho Woody, a self-described “Lady’s Man with NO BANKRUPTCIES ready to meet just one Special Lady with NO KIDS.” After getting to know these grocery shoppers through Miss Carlip’s dedicated voyeurism, going to the market will never be the same.
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A Pinnacle of Performance Art
19. April 2008
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Hillary Carlip is first and foremost a comedienne as her previous 'autobiographical' book QUEEN OF THE ODDBALLS confirmed. But at the heart of comedy is tragedy, something every fine writer of comedy understands, and it is that turn of words that makes a potentially tragic story the seed of comedy. In her newest book A LA CART: THE SECRET LIVES OF GROCERY SHOPPERS Carlip has selected the idea of exploring the creators of random shopping lists found in markets, parking lots, and other unlikely places and from these tidbits of notations she has created the persons who wrote them - which turns out to be twenty six individuals whose lives become the matrix for Carlip to bring to the performance stage of this book. Each character is imagined with insight and sensitivity and then physically transformed into a 'real person' by the actress Carlip and her crew of makeup artist, costume designer, and, very importantly, her photographer, Barbara Green.
In this very well-designed book are images of the found lists, the 'characters' who wrote them as impersonated by Carlip and photographed by Green in the marketplaces the characters might have used, accompanied by a short story about each person, written with great skill and humor and pathos by Carlip. It is a 'compleat' experience as we are allowed to meet each of the 26 list writers, people who range from hookers, to porn stars, to teenagers, to coupon clipping ex-quilter Helen, a street person, a therapist who is clearly out of joint, to Latinas with oddly utilized cafés or frustrated careers as airline hostesses, Latinos of varying sexual persuasion - the list is so varied that it includes men and women whose lives at first seem comical, but whose emotional states are at times in tatters.
Carlip never fails to entertain with her multiple personalities, but she also follows the rule of comedy in sharing the humanity beneath the façade that allows us to laugh while we empathize with the potential sadness each character suggests. This is a beautiful little book, a delight to read, but one that offers some rich lessons in sociology and humanity. Hillary Carlip continues to prove that she is one of the more important messengers of comedy at work today! Grady Harp, April 08
In this very well-designed book are images of the found lists, the 'characters' who wrote them as impersonated by Carlip and photographed by Green in the marketplaces the characters might have used, accompanied by a short story about each person, written with great skill and humor and pathos by Carlip. It is a 'compleat' experience as we are allowed to meet each of the 26 list writers, people who range from hookers, to porn stars, to teenagers, to coupon clipping ex-quilter Helen, a street person, a therapist who is clearly out of joint, to Latinas with oddly utilized cafés or frustrated careers as airline hostesses, Latinos of varying sexual persuasion - the list is so varied that it includes men and women whose lives at first seem comical, but whose emotional states are at times in tatters.
Carlip never fails to entertain with her multiple personalities, but she also follows the rule of comedy in sharing the humanity beneath the façade that allows us to laugh while we empathize with the potential sadness each character suggests. This is a beautiful little book, a delight to read, but one that offers some rich lessons in sociology and humanity. Hillary Carlip continues to prove that she is one of the more important messengers of comedy at work today! Grady Harp, April 08
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Tell this secret!
28. März 2008
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
Before I could even open my new copy of Hillary Carlip's , A La Cart, my 18 year-old daughter snatched it away and read it cover to cover. When I finally got it back, she hung over my shoulder as I read, laughing again at each character and their grocery list. The premise; make up characters based on their discarded grocery list and then have clever photographer shoot you playing all the characters.
One reason she likes it so much is because we've always played what we call "airport people." When we wait for our flight, we take turns making up bios about the people waiting around us.
We also grab left over grocery store lists from the bottom of random carts. We've just never put the two together. But we will now.
Her favorites: Darcy, the punker who grew up listening to The Dead Kennedy's and wants to be a comic book author.
Derrick, who listed, Mouse Traps, cheese and mouse on his post it note. Ooh,,the goth guy.
My fave: Lloyd, hunched over in his motorized wheelchair, trying to adjust to wife Sylvia's death and Woody who wrote: Coors and oreos on the inside of box of matches. Love THAT!
The photographer, Barbara Green, does an amazing job with each shot. Woody made the front cover with his package of Oreos. .
It's a fun, lively book, great gift for,,anyone, even jaded teenagers like mine.
I just wonder what Carlip would create from MY grocery list this week: Beer, bagels, bread, bacon and brownie mix.
My to do list: Get the Oddball book next.
One reason she likes it so much is because we've always played what we call "airport people." When we wait for our flight, we take turns making up bios about the people waiting around us.
We also grab left over grocery store lists from the bottom of random carts. We've just never put the two together. But we will now.
Her favorites: Darcy, the punker who grew up listening to The Dead Kennedy's and wants to be a comic book author.
Derrick, who listed, Mouse Traps, cheese and mouse on his post it note. Ooh,,the goth guy.
My fave: Lloyd, hunched over in his motorized wheelchair, trying to adjust to wife Sylvia's death and Woody who wrote: Coors and oreos on the inside of box of matches. Love THAT!
The photographer, Barbara Green, does an amazing job with each shot. Woody made the front cover with his package of Oreos. .
It's a fun, lively book, great gift for,,anyone, even jaded teenagers like mine.
I just wonder what Carlip would create from MY grocery list this week: Beer, bagels, bread, bacon and brownie mix.
My to do list: Get the Oddball book next.
4 von 4 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Hillar-IOUS! Ms. Carlip has done it again (maybe better this time).
9. April 2008
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I was a huge fan of Hillary Carlip's last book - "Queen of the Oddballs" - her insights and humor and compassion in her writing felt fresh and funny and very alive. I have to say I think she may have topped herself with 'A La Cart' . Who hasn't seen a grocery list and wondered the kind of person who wrote it?? Well, now we know. I don't know who I love more -- Graciela, June or Pammy. I confess Troy scares me just a little.
Hillary brings performance art to the pages with these brilliant characterizations and amazing photographs. This would make a great gift too. I'm just saying...
Hillary brings performance art to the pages with these brilliant characterizations and amazing photographs. This would make a great gift too. I'm just saying...
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